LexisNexis Practice Guide: Pennsylvania Civil Discovery

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LexisNexis Practice Guide: Pennsylvania Civil Discovery is designed to provide a thorough overview of the most important aspects of discovery for civil cases in state courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Thus, the scope and breadth of this practice guide is necessarily limited to discovery issues that judges and trial attorneys most frequently confront before and during trial in state courts in Pennsylvania. The goal here is to provide this practice guide as a useful guide to the reader’s legal practice, giving an insight on decisions from the bench.
This additional 2026 Release of the LexisNexis Practice Guide: Pennsylvania Civil Discovery is warranted as it address the use of artificial intelligence in civil discovery given the reality of highly publicized misuses of AI in litigation. Courts across the country are issuing sanctions, referring attorneys to disciplinary boards, dismissing cases, and disqualifying counsel for AI-related failures. As a result, it should be no surprise that opposing counsel will scrutinize work product for signs of AI misuse. A Special Preface is added into this additional release highlighting those practical traps that affecting practitioners right now with real cases, real consequences, and those specific guidance on how to avoid them.
New insights like this is why the treatise continues to be a convenient one-volume source for in-depth practical guidance on Pennsylvania law and procedure with step-by-step guidance essential to effectively managing each step of the discovery process in a civil lawsuit. Each chapter in the Practice Guide reflects the keen legal analysis and practical insights of the Hon. Daniel J. Anders (General Editor), Bobby Ochoa III (Associate Editor), and Advisory Board members, as well as original author, James E. Beasley, Jr.
Topically organized, the title covers:
• Planning Discovery;
• Timing of Discovery;
• Interrogatories;
• Requests for Production of Documents for Inspection;
• Depositions;
• Medical Discovery;
• Experts;
• Third-Party Discovery;
• Objections to Discovery;
• Sanctions for Failure to Produce Discovery or for Spoliation;
• Requests for Admission;
• Forms; and much more.

LexisNexis Practice Guide Pennsylvania Civil Discovery integrates how-to practice guidance, task-oriented checklists, downloadable forms and references to sources that provide in-depth explanations of subjects to make this complex area understandable to litigators. It distills the experience of seasoned litigators in both federal and Pennsylvania State courts to demystify the complex areas of understanding, planning, identifying, producing, preserving, protecting and using discovery. It offers targeted practical guidance for the Pennsylvania litigator struggling to master the complexities of the Pennsylvania and federal court rules and case law that govern this important evolving area.

The previous edition's ISBN is 9798341726482.

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