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Requesting Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal)
Practical Law Toolkit 3-590-9706 (Approx. 16 pages)
Requesting Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal)
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Resources to assist counsel when serving requests for the production of documents (RFP or document requests) on an opposing party in federal civil litigation. Specifically, this Toolkit offers resources related to drafting and serving document requests under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure (FRCP) 34 and reviewing the responding party's written responses and document productions.
Electronically stored information (ESI) and paper documents are crucial to a case as they generally are the only contemporaneous evidence relating to a dispute. To obtain another party's relevant ESI and paper documents, counsel must carefully craft requests for the production of documents (RFP) that are relevant to the litigation and proportional to the needs of the case (FRCP 26 and 34).
This Requesting 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 an RFP in federal civil litigation, generally (see Drafting and Serving Requests).
- Reviewing the responding party's written responses to the RFP and document productions (see Reviewing the Responding Party's Written Responses, Document Production, and Privilege Log).
- Navigating disputes about the RFP (see Navigating Disputes).
- Drafting an RFP in certain types of specialized litigation (see Specialized Litigation).
For resources that provide guidance to a party responding to an RFP, see Responding Parties: Requests for Production of Documents Toolkit (Federal). For resources related to document subpoenas in federal court, see Subpoena Toolkit (Federal).
Reviewing the Responding Party's Written Responses, Document Production, and Privilege Log
For a collection of resources addressing the intricacies of hosting and reviewing document productions containing ESI, see E-Discovery Toolkit.