FRCP? What's that? My point exactly. The vast majority of us in education, especially K-12, are woefully unprepared to deal with the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. These are the rules that went ...

An expert Q&A on new Rule 16.1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), effective December 1, 2025, including how Rule 16.1 may impact multidistrict litigation (MDL) practice and case ...

Revisions to several key provisions of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect on December 1, 2015, and will have a significant impact on discovery procedure and practice in federal court.

Review the FRCP provisions governing discovery, including FRCP 26(f). Read all court-specific rules, standing orders, and forms on: discovery generally; and Rule 26(f) conferences. Review the assigned ...

Ascertainability has long been recognized as an "[i]mplied requirement" for class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23. In re Initial Pub. Offerings Sec. Litig., 471 F.3d 24, 30 (2d ...

Lumen N. Mulligan is Professor of Law and Director of the Shook, Hardy & Bacon Center for Excellence in Advocacy at the University of Kansas School of Law. Glen Staszewski is the A.J. Thomas Faculty ...

Under Rule 13(a) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), entitled "Compulsory Counterclaim," the defendant must plead a counterclaim that arises out of the same "transaction or occurrence" as ...

On July 16, 2024, the Federal Circuit affirmed both the sua sponte order issued by the District of Delaware requiring Lori LaPray, the purported owner of all of the plaintiff LLCs created by the ...

In case you haven’t noticed there have been some changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), specifically rules 26 and 37. These rules govern the production of materials in a civil lawsuit ...