Proposed E-Discovery Amendments for Tennessee State Courts: Are You Ready?

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Tennessee attorneys must now prepare to enter the world of e-discovery. E-discovery was introduced into the federal courts in 2006 and the amendments will be submitted to the Tennessee Supreme Court in September. The court will then adopt them and submit them to the Tennessee legislature for approval. If approved, the changes will take effect July 1, 2009.

Learn what the new amendments will mean for your practice and how to prepare for the changes by participating in the all-new Tennessee Attorneys Memo audio conference.

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In just 60 minutes, the chair of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Advisory Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure will give an insider's view of what the e-discovery amendments will require of each Tennessee attorney, including:

• Requires parties to disclose electronically stored information that is relevant, not privileged, and reasonably accessible;
• If electronically stored information is not reasonably accessible, permits party to obtain discovery by showing good cause;
• Permits courts to set conditions for discovery, for example, limiting the amount, type, or sources of information required to be accessed;
• Sets procedure for a party that has withheld information on the basis of privilege or the work product doctrine to make the claim so that the requesting party can decide whether to contest the claim and the court can resolve the dispute;
• Places the discovery of electronically stored information on equal footing with discovery of paper documents;
• Requires a party to produce documents as they are kept in the usual course of business or to organize and label them to correspond with the categories in the discovery request; and
• Provides that absent exceptional circumstances, a court may not impose sanctions on a party for failing to provide electronically stored information lost as a result of the routine, good-faith, operation of an electronic information system.

PLUS: Your presenter will also discuss other proposed changes to the rules of procedure and evidence.

October 14, 2008