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Responding Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal)
Practical Law Toolkit 1-590-9825 (Approx. 16 pages)
Responding Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal)
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Resources to assist counsel when responding to requests for the production of documents (RFP or document requests) in federal civil litigation. Specifically, this Toolkit offers resources related to drafting written responses to document requests under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 34 and reviewing and producing responsive, nonprivileged electronically stored information (ESI) and paper documents.
Electronically stored information (ESI) and paper documents are crucial to a case as they generally are the only contemporaneous evidence relating to a dispute. When an opposing party seeks a client's relevant ESI and paper documents by serving requests for the production of the documents (RFP), counsel must carefully craft written responses to the RFP and generally must also produce responsive, nonprivileged documents (FRCP 26 and 34).
This Responding Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal) offers resources to assist counsel when:
- Participating in early discussions about the scope and logistics of document discovery (see Pre-Request Negotiations).
- Drafting and serving written responses to an RFP (see Drafting and Serving Written Responses).
- Reviewing and producing responsive, nonprivileged documents (see Reviewing and Producing Documents).
- Navigating disputes about an RFP (see Navigating Disputes).
- Responding to an RFP in certain types of specialized litigation (see Specialized Litigation).
For resources that provide guidance to a party requesting documents (serving an RFP), see Requesting Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal). For resources related to document subpoenas in federal court, see Subpoena Toolkit (Federal).
Reviewing and Producing Documents
For a collection of resources addressing the intricacies of preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, and producing ESI, see E-Discovery Toolkit.