Didn’t Know About the December 2019 Federal Rule Amendments? Practical Law Has You Covered.

The holidays are hectic, so you may not have known that a number of amendments to the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Evidence, and Criminal Procedure became effective December 1.

Practical Law has over 160 newly updated resources reflecting the new and amended rules and detailed guidance on what's changed.

Among other things:

• The FRAP amendments increased some filing obligations for federal litigants, such as expanding the parties and types of information subject to FRAP 26.1 disclosures, but eased others, such as eliminating the certificate of service requirement separate proof of service for certain documents filed in some federal courts of appeals using case management/electronic case filing (CM/ECF).
• The FRE changes modified how courts determine a statement is trustworthy to admit for its truth under the residual hearsay exception.
• New Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 16.1 requires prosecutors to meet and confer with defense counsel within 14 days after an arraignment to agree on timing and procedures for pre-trial disclosure. 

For more on what’s changed, see Legal Update, Overview of December 2019 Federal Rule Amendments.