United States:
Attacking Disproportionate Discovery With New Rule 26(b)
12 November 2015
McGuireWoods LLP
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Titled "Attacking Disproportionate Discovery With New Rule
26(b)," this Nov. 4 Law360 article by
McGuireWoods lawyer
David Leishman discusses the newly revised
"proportionality" limit to the scope of discovery. David
notes that the rule and the objection itself – that the
requested discovery is disproportionate to the needs of the case
– are not new, but they are underutilized. Old boilerplate
objections, however, will not suffice under the amendments, he
says; counsel must more precisely describe how and why a discovery
request is unreasonable. Full text of the article is available to
subscribers online.
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