Federal Civil Rules Handbook, 2011 ed.

Following the e-discovery reforms of 2006, the 2007 Federal Civil Rules "restyling" project, and the e-government privacy amendments of 2007, the Time Computation Project retooled most of the rules' time periods, revising and supplementing the methods of time calculation. Effective December 1, 2010, Rules 8, 26, and 56 are amended, including new expert disclosure and discovery rules and a new federal Summary Judgment Rule. This handbook provides a guide to practice under these rules, discussing applications, limitations, and the traps. It also helps you recognize the changes to each rule and alerts you to changes likely to have substantive ramifications.