Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: Federal Rules for Civil Procedures (FRCP) Amendments
Well, I'm sure you've all heard some buzz around the amendments to the Federal Rules for Civil Procedures (FRCP). It's hard to understand all the changes and what it means to your businesses, so I thought we should start a discussion. This way we can learn from each other and share what we know.
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:45 am Post subject: I'm learning myself, but...
While speaking with our legal department, I heard this snippet: our company is nationwide, but our legal department has designed their infrastructure based on the court systems of a handful of districts across the United States.
Basically, our counsel implied that the judges/litigators could be difficult and, based on rule 34(a), sequester the physical equipment the electronic information is contained on. In our case, that means disk arrays. Since this is the case, our legal department has their own disk array(s) spread geographically across the US.
Wow Jason, you raise some interesting challenges, many regulations are state and many times country specific. How do other companies maintain compliance across geographically dispersed locations? And, what happens to those companies operating internationally? This sounds like a real management nightmare from both the legal and IT standpoints.
Do you know if these rules did in fact take effect on December 1, 2006?
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