• Chapter 1 Planning Discovery
• Chapter 2 Preliminary Investigation
• Chapter 3 Privilege and Work Product
• Chapter 4 Disclosures
• Chapter 5 Interrogatories
• Chapter 6 Requests for Production
• Chapter 7 Nonparty Discovery
• Chapter 8 Requests for Entry and Inspection
• Chapter 9 Requests for Physical and Mental Examinations
• Chapter 10 Requests for Admission
• Chapter 11 Depositions
• Chapter 12 Experts
• Chapter 13 Compel, Resist and Amend Discovery
• Chapter 14 Foreign Discovery

This edition (Revision 22) of Handling Federal Discovery provides significant text updates to virtually every task associated with federal discovery litigation. Over 100 new cases have been added; the analyses have been expressly refined to reflect modern electronic discovery; and the prior edition’s voluminous case law on proportionality and the 2015 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure have been subsumed into Chapter 13. Practitioners will find a renewed focus on split of authority issues, so as to anticipate opposing arguments and successfully navigate them when they are advanced.

Some key developments covered include:

Planning Discovery

• Determine Discovery Goals (Task 1)

Privilege and Work Product

• Assert Attorney-Client Privilege (Task 12)
• Challenge a Privilege Log (Task 17)

Nonparty Discovery

• Prepare Subpoenas (Task 40)
• Challenge Subpoenas (Task 41)

Requests for Admission

• Propound Requests for Admission (Task 52)
• Withdraw or Amend Admissions (Task 55)

Depositions

• Notice of Depositions (Task 57)
• Notice Entity Depositions (Task 58)
• Videotape Depositions (Task 60)
• Take Telephonic Depositions (Task 61)
• Take Depositions (Task 65)
• Defend Depositions (Task 66)

Experts

• Determine Whether to Retain Experts (Task 70)
• Find and Retain Experts (Task 71)
• Supplemental Expert Discovery (Task 79)

Compel, Resist, and Amend Discovery

• Meet and Confer (Task 80)
• Resisting Discovery (Proportionality & Objections) (new Task 83B)
• Sanctions in ESI Disputes Context (new Task 87B)
• Oppose Motion for Sanctions (Task 88)
• Appeal Discovery Rulings (Task 97)

Foreign Discovery

• File Petition for Domestic Discovery in Aid of a Foreign Proceeding (Task 101)