Document Don’ts: Drafting Discovery Requests

Want to ensure your discovery requests are not only FRCP-compliant but thorough and effective? Cue one of Practical Guidance Civil Litigation’s core documents on drafting and serving document requests, by Jim Wagstaffe. He’ll take you through the Rule 34 requests, drafting, formatting, proportionality, types of document requests, motions to compel … basically anything and everything you need to know. Check out the practice note at the link below!

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