Compliance » Courts To Decide If New Rules Will Curb Litigation Costs

Courts To Decide If New Rules Will Curb Litigation Costs

June 15, 2016

Exmaine data mag glass inspect Cross 420

Discovery is expensive on two counts: the cost of doing it, and the cost of fighting about doing it. Writing in his “The Antitrust Litigator” column in Today’s General Counsel, Jeffery Cross looks at the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and the prospects for their actually reducing the cost of civil litigation. Whether or not that happens, he says, depends largely on the degree to which the federal bench accepts the mantle which the new Rules have laid upon it: to enforce those new obligations, including the much-discussed call for “proportionality.”

Read full article at:

Daily Updates

Sign up for our free daily newsletter for the latest news and business legal developments.

Scroll to Top