award winning advocacy
LCJ has helped to streamline rules in our civil justice system that waste businesses’ time and resources and has been honored by the Institute of Legal Reform at the U.S. Chamber for its success reforming current rules that require businesses of all sizes to retain massive amounts of information irrelevant to their cases.
The position papers hyperlinked below illustrate the scope and depth of recent LCJ rule making campaigns that laid the foundation for the recent discovery reforms related to scope, preservation and costs. The formal comments, combined with the face-to-face testimony and interaction of LCJ members at various hearings and additional support provided by leading legal scholars and academics, provides compelling reasons for judges, Members of Congress and rule makers to give serious consideration to fundamental rule reform.
The position papers hyperlinked below illustrate the scope and depth of recent LCJ rule making campaigns that laid the foundation for the recent discovery reforms related to scope, preservation and costs. The formal comments, combined with the face-to-face testimony and interaction of LCJ members at various hearings and additional support provided by leading legal scholars and academics, provides compelling reasons for judges, Members of Congress and rule makers to give serious consideration to fundamental rule reform.
"I have been particularly impressed with LCJ's network of defense bar leaders who are not afraid to take on the plaintiffs' bar in both the legislative and judicial arenas."
- michael harrington, sr. vice president and general counsel eli lilly
Resources
- LCJ Comment to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules - Thoughts on the Note to the Proposed Rule 37(e), 042514
- LCJ Comment to the Advisory Committee, Final Modifications Necessary, 040414
- LCJ Supplementary Comment to the Advisory Committee, 020314
- LCJ Public Comment to the Advisory Committee, 083013
- LCJ Comment, A Meaningful Step, 040113
- LCJ Comment, The Un-American Rule, 040113
- LCJ Comment, No Fault Exception, 021113
- LCJ Comment, FRCP 37(e) and Other Proposals, 122712
- LCJ Comment, A Meaningful Package of Amendments, 103012
- LCJ Comment, Current Duke Subcommittee Sketches, 103112
- Cortese, EDI Article - New Rules Will Reduce Costs, 101812
- LCJ General Counsels Letter, 100512
- LCJ Draft FRCP Duke MiniConf Questions & Answers, 100212
- LCJ FRCP Duke Sketch Sedona State Farm Response Letter, 100112
- Draft Proposed Amendments, FRCP 26 and 37 Discovery Costs Preservation, 090812
- Questions, FRCP Duke Miniconference, 090512
- LCJ Comment Letter, Duke Subcommittee Proposals, 060412
- LCJ Comment, Duke Subcommittee Proposals, 060512
- LCJ Comment, New Standards Summary Views, 043012
- LCJ Comment, New Standards, 031512
- LCJ Comment, FRCP 45, 010512
- LCJ Statement, Congressional Hearing on Discovery, 121311
- LCJ Comment, The Time is Now, 103111
- LCJ Comment, Stronger Discovery Medicine, 081811
- Memorandum, Preservation/Sanctions Issues for Preservation Mini-Conference 062911
- LCJ Comment, Preservation – Moving the Paradigm to Rule Text, to Civil Rules Advisory Committee, 040111
- Amicus Brief Voom v. Echostar, John Jablonski and Conor R. Crowley, 032911
- Supbpoenas FRCP 45, LCJ Comment Letter to Judge Campbell, 033011
- LCJ Comment, Preservation: Moving the Paradigm, to Civil Rules Advisory Committee 111010
