procedural guides

Request for Production in Virginia Circuit Court – At A Glance

Use this At A Glance Guide to learn the Virginia Supreme Court Rules related to Motion for Protective Order in Virginia Circuit Courts. For more detailed information, please see the SmartRules Request for Production Guide for the court where your action is pending. Any party may serve on any other party a request (1) to produce and permit the … Read Article

Request for Production in Georgia Superior Court – At A Glance

Use this At A Glance Guide to learn the Georgia Code related to amended answer in Georgia Superior Court. For more detailed information, please see the SmartRules Request for Production Guide for the court where your action is pending. Discovery requests may relate to any unprivileged matter relevant to the subject matter of the pending action and relating to … Read Article

Do Courts Routinely Enforce Clawback Agreements?

In a July, 2006 article Andrew Rhys Davies writes:”The difficulty with clawback arrangements is that it is unclear whether they actually preserve privilege. Under the Rules Enabling Act, the new procedural rules cannot modify the substantive law on privilege, so the existing law on inadvertent production will determine whether a clawback agreement preserves privilege in … Read Article