On November 13th and 14th, CCL Senior Litigation Counsel Valerie M. Nannery participated in a two-day, invitation-only conference hosted by the Duke Center for Judicial Studies to examine how the amendments to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26(b)(1), discussed earlier here and here, should be implemented, should they go into effect on December 1, 2015. “Implementing Discovery Proportionality Standard Conference” included panels on the history of the amendments and the concept of “proportionality” in discovery, judicial case management, and applying the factors in the “proportionality” standard. Participants included practitioners from the defense and plaintiffs’ bar, in-house counsel from several large corporations, and several federal judges, including members of the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and the Judicial Conference’s Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure.