The AP (3/11) reports, “Trial lawyers and a judicial think tank are suggesting major changes in the way courts hear civil suits, saying current rules allow attorneys to drag out disputes by demanding irrelevant and hard-to-find data.” According to a report by “an American College of Trial Lawyers task force and the Denver-based Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System” the “current rules for ‘discovery’ — the sharing of information ahead of a trial — in civil suits are antiquated and too broad” and “they suggest that federal and state courts restrict discovery to the specifics of a case and limit how much data attorneys can request after the first round of information sharing.”
From the American Association for Justice news release.
