I had the opportunity to attend LegalTech New York 2010 and, in addition to witnessing the launch of our new product WestlawNext, I have been attending some of the sessions at the conference.
Since so much of this show focuses on discovery, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that affect discovery (especially e-discovery) loom large here in New York during LegalTech.
As a principal attorney editor for West, my team in Rochester, New York handles a number of treatises and practice guides involving litigation and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (and e-discovery for that matter). So I attended the session titled Amending the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, outlining recent movements to overhaul the FRCP and the federal rulemaking process to deal with some of the issues and the soaring costs of litigation in federal courts. (more…)
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