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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Oct. 13, 2007

Global Discovery

Focus Column - By Christopher Van Gundy and Sharlyn Walling Dreyfus - New federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery are controversial domestically, but the real legal confusion stems from how they will be applied to interactions with foreign jurisdictions.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Christopher Van Gundy
and Sharlyn Walling Dreyfus


      The new federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery have generated a spate of articles and seminars speculating on the future of discovery in U.S. litigation. What seems certain is that the breadth of U.S. discovery will expand to meet the needs of the digital age but also will meet with continued resistance when U.S. litigants seek discovery abroad.

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