The Pretrial Practice & Discovery Committee is dedicated to enhancing the substantive knowledge of its members about a wide range of Pretrial Practice & Discovery issues. It keeps members abreast of legislative proposals, rule changes, and recent court decisions. To take full advantage of these benefits, we invite you to become involved in our subcommittees.

The Committee operates through its subcommittees, each of which focuses on a particular substantive or procedural topic, or which keeps the membership informed about recent developments in the law. With the help of members like you, the subcommittees can provide our membership with more in-depth information on a more frequent basis, especially in fast-growing and cutting-edge areas such as electronic discovery. Being involved also gives you the opportunity to network with some of the country's best and brightest litigators concerning topics that affect your practice every day.

Getting involved is easy! We will contact you with information about current projects. We look forward to working with you!

We hope you will take a moment to explore the Committee's latest newsletter, featuring articles on motions to dismiss, electronic discovery and drafting interrogatories. Additional articles can be found in the newsletter archive.

In Brookdale Univ. Hosp. & Med. Ctr. v. Health Ins. Plan of Greater N.Y., the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York declared privilege must be timely asserted to withhold metadata in email headers.

Our federal court system is slowly starting to take advantage of the technological advances associated with the information age. Through the Case Management and Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system, the federal judiciary has replaced the old docketing and case management system with a modern, quick, and (relatively) user-friendly case management program. CM/ECF gives courts the option to store case file documents electronically, as well as to accept filings over the Internet.

The advent and proliferation of technologies such as mobile Internet cards and web-conferencing tools mean that corporate executives and directors can now perform their duties anywhere, at any time. These developments have altered pretrial litigation in prominent ways, expanding the scope of discovery well beyond the parameters of the workplace.