The FRCP Amendments. Yes, another article referencing the 2015 Amendments, but with a different spin on the ball this time. The primary intent of the amendments is to enable the discovery process to be faster, more focused, reduced in scope, thereby less expensive—ultimately allowing cases to be decided on the merits (Rule 1).
These amendments had their origins in the realization that increasing amounts of data being created and stored was often skewing the legal process. Discovery costs were becoming central to whether litigants would be denied the right to have their cases decided on the merits.
