| TIME |
SESSION |
| 7:45 a – 8:30 a |
Continental Breakfast and Sign-In (Regency AB – Ballroom Level) |
| 8:30 a – 8:45 a |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks |
| 8:45 a – 9:45 a |
PANEL 1: Reports from Three Special-Focus, Bench-Bar Group Meetings on Effects of 2015 Rule Amendments; Closed-Case Surveys Based on 2009 FJC Discovery Cost Survey; Data on Discovery Costs (Steve Gensler, Linda Simard, and Brian Ray — Martin Redish, Moderator) |
| 9:45 a – 10:45 a |
PANEL 2: Results of National Bar Organizations’ and Exterro/EDRM Judicial Surveys (Gene Vance, Jennie Anderson, Malini Moorthy, and George Socha — Thomas Main, Moderator) |
| 10:45 a – 11:00 a |
Break |
| 11:00 a – 12:15 p |
PANEL 3: Evaluating Specific Amendment Provisions: Lawyer Cooperation, Pre-Motion Conferences, Live Rule 16 conferences, Early Rule 34 Production Requests, and Narrowing Initial Discovery Requests (Judge Paul Grimm, Judge George Hanks, Joshua Friedman, and Laurence Pulgram — Martin Redish, Moderator) |
| 12:15 p – 1:30 p |
Lunch (Chesapeake View – Rooftop Level) |
| 1:30 p – 3:00 p |
PANEL 4: Evaluating Specific Amendment Provisions: Whose Burden to Show Proportionality, Evid. R. 502(d) Orders, Cost-Shifting Orders, Specifying Grounds for Objections to Discovery Requests, Withholding Information, Specifying Time for Production, and Use of TAR (Judge Robert Dow, Judge David Lawson, Robert Levy, and Jeannine Kenney — Thomas Main, Moderator) |
| 3:00 p – 3:15 p |
Break |
| 3:15 p – 4:30 p |
PANEL 5: Proportionality at the Extremes – Applying Proportionality to Large, Complex Cases Involving Massive Volume of Documents, e.g., Mass-Tort MDLs, and Routine Cases Involving Modest Volume of Documents, e.g., Contract Cases (Judge Susan Illston, Judge Pamela Sargent, Jennifer Scullion, and John Rosenthal — Martin Redish, Moderator) |
| 4:45 p – 6:15 p |
Reception (Chesapeake View – Rooftop Level) |
