Six years in the making! Now begins the education campaign for bench and bar. Effective September 1, 2012 are amendments to seven existing Florida civil procedure rules: 1.200 (Pretrial Procedure); 1.201 (Complex Litigation); 1.280 (General Provisions Governing Discovery); 1.340 (Interrogatories to Parties); 1.350 (Production of Documents and Things and Entry Upon Land for Inspection and Other Purposes); 1.380 (Failure to Make Discovery; Sanctions); and 1.410 (Subpoena). This is the culmination of a six-year effort initially chaired by me and with the help of members of my subcommittee of lawyers and judges and the Civil Rules Standing Committee of the Florida Bar. These rules will further allow for the ability for neutrals to play a role in dispute resolution of ESI issues in state court cases.
"This is the culmination of a rigorous effort to modernize procedure in Florida to include electronically stored information,” attorney Lawrence Kolin, of Winter Park, founding chair of the e-discovery rules committee, told told the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists®. See ACEDS Bulletin here - http://aceds.org/news/florida-ediscovery-rules-take-effect-september-1
