Quote of the Day: Lawyers Should Brush Up on Their Discovery Rules

“It would be nice for them to know the federal rules... It’s necessary to keep practicing law and not lose clients.”

— U.S. Judge Andrew Peck of the Southern District of New York.

Peck spoke Thursday at the Big Law Business Discovery conference at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York City. He spoke of how lawyers who appear in his court still don’t closely study the rules of civil procedure on e-Discovery.

“It’s scary,” he said. He could recall at least one time when lawyers didn’t realize the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended in December 2015. “They’re like, ‘Really?... Nobody told ...