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'Save As Privileged' ' The Next e-Discovery Answer?

By Mary Mack
January 03, 2006

On Sept. 20, 2005, the Judicial Conference Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure sent the proposed electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules to the Supreme Court for its consideration. The Committee unanimously approved the proposed amendments to Civil Rules 16, 26(a), 16(f), 33, 34 and 45 and Form 35.

In general, the proposed rules will increase awareness of the discovery issues that are unique to electronic discovery and will require that the lawyers, the parties and the court focus early on the format in which electronic data will be produced in federal actions. Also, absent unusual circumstances, the new rules will protect parties from sanctions for failure to produce electronic data lost by routine, good faith loss of data and will protect parties from the need to produce inaccessible data under some circumstances.

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