Discovery Problems and their Solutions, 2nd Edition

Lawyers and clients today devote enormous amounts of time, effort and expense to discovery. More often than not, discovery, and not trial, is the central battleground of a case. The need for analytical and strategic guidance on problems in discovery is heightened by the fact that much of it is handled by relatively inexperienced lawyers, and in the case of document production, legal assistants.

This updated and expanded, edition describes the problems that civil litigators encounter most frequently in pretrial discovery and presents suggestions and strategies for solving these problems. Following a background discussion on the scope and types of discovery, discovery problems are presented as hypothetical (many or which the authors have encountered in their experience) followed by a discussion that includes the law and helpful practice lips. In this edition, particular emphasis has been placed on discussion and interpretation, of the new rules, and evolving case, law, concerning discovery of electronically stored information (ESI).