Trials & Litigation

Report: Electronic Discovery Should Be Proportionate to Controversy

By Debra Cassens Weiss

Nov 4, 2009, 06:52 am CST

How can lawsuits be resolved more quickly and at less cost? Two groups offering solutions suggest that discovery—including electronic discovery—needs to be proportionate to the amount in controversy and importance of the issues.

The groups devised proposed rules for experiments in civil justice reform after a survey of the American… full story