Fire and emergency medical services (EMS) agencies are no stranger to litigation of all types–from criminal to civil claims in local and federal courts. Daily, we see in the news that fire departments ...

If you find yourself involved in civil litigation of any kind, the case will take up a significant part of your life. While your attorney will take on the heavy lifting, he or she will require your ...

Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy deal, which will reach the Supreme Court for oral argument on Monday, is just one of many examples of recent unorthodox civil procedure maneuvers in public harms litigation.

After seven long years of heated debate, on June 4, 2025, the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure finally approved the framework of a new rule of civil procedure ...

(This article was originally published on June 1, 2025. For a regularly updated version of this resource, see Limiting E-Discovery Costs in Federal Civil Litigation on Practical Law.) Generally, an ...