FRCP Reference Collection

The EDRM Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) Reference Collection is a resource for EDRM members. It contains the full text of the Federal Rules, Committee Notes for the December 2015 amendments to the Rules, and links to related resources.

The collection is designed to help attorneys, their support staff, and others who need or want to understand and make effective use of the 2015 changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. As our members use these resources and give us their feedback, we will adjust and expand the resources we include is this set.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

The EDRM rendition of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure consists of:

  • List of all Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with amended rules highlighted
  • Quick links to the amended rules
  • For every rule, amended or not, its own page

For each amended rule, we have included:

  • A list of the amended sections of the rule, with links to those sections
  • A section containing the 2015 amendments to the rule, with:
    • Changes in bold, additions underlined and deletions struck through
    • Links to related discussions in the Committee Note
    • Links to other sections of the rule
    • Links to other Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
    • Links to additional rules, regulations, and the like (such as to Federal Rule of Evidence 502)
  • A section containing the Committee Note for the 2015 amendments to that rule, with:
    • Links from the note back to the related amendments
    • Links to sections of the rule mentioned in the note
    • Links to other Federal Rules of Civil Procedure mentioned in the note
    • Links to additional rules, etc. mentioned in the note
  • A section containing the complete amended rule, with:
    • Changes in bold, additions underlined and deletions struck through
    • Links to other Federal Rules of Civil Procedure mentioned in the note
    • Links to additional rules, etc. mentioned in the note

For all other rules, we have included:

  • The full text of the rule
  • Links to other sections of the rule
  • Links to other Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
  • Links to additional rules, regulations, and the like (such as to Federal Rule of Evidence 502)

Click here to view the full list of rules.

Resources

The EDRM FRCP Reference Collection contains four sets of FRCP resources:

  • Articles
  • Conferences
  • Presentations
  • Webinars

Each set contains a listing of resources, such as articles discussing the 2015 amendments. For each item, there is a link to the listed materials, links to rules discussed in the item, and additional information based on the type of item.

All four sets are available at a single page. Materials also are listed on the pages of the related rules, so that, for example, the page on Rule 26 contains tables of articles, conferences and webinars discussing that rule.

In addition, please see the Annotated “Revised Guidelines and Best Practices for Implementing the 2015 Discovery Amendments to Achieve Proportionality,” published by the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies and updated every six weeks with new, relevant case law.

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