Practice Management

Some key FRCP deadlines changed in big ways on December 1, 2009.

By Dan Hull

Be serious. The 10-day post-trial deadline is now 28 days? While the work of the Judicial Conference's five Advisory Committees never really stops, big changes to federal court rules, including the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), don't occur that often. The newest amendments are "technical amendments"--but the changes are anything but technical.

Two years in the making, the changes were signed into law (H.R. 1626) by the President on May 7, 2009, and became effective December 1, 2009. There are also significant changes to some of the time triggers in the appellate, criminal and bankruptcy rules. All are part of the Judicial Conference's "Time-Computation Project".

Full post as published by What About Clients? on March 19, 2010 (boomark / email).