The name, address, and telephone number of persons having knowledge of relevant facts, and a brief statement of each identified person’s connection with the case.Instead of the “amount and any method of calculating economic damages,” the rules now require “ a computation of each category of damages” and the production of the non-privileged “documents or other evidentiary material on which each computation is based, including materials bearing on the nature and extent of injuries suffered ”.The legal theories and, in general, the factual bases of the responding party’s claims or defenses.The name, address, and telephone number of any potential parties.The correct names of the parties to the lawsuit.Rule 194.3, which previously governed the response deadline, has been removed.Ĭontent: The new Required Disclosures incorporate some elements of the old Requests for Disclosure (shown in standard font) and include new disclosures, modeled after Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(a)(1)(A), which are bolded below. Parties who were served or joined after the filing of the first answer have 30 days after being served or joined to file their Required Disclosures. When Due: Required Disclosures are due at or within 30 days after the filing of the first answer. Now, instead of waiting to receive the standard Request for Disclosure notice, the Texas Supreme Court created an affirmative duty to disclose the “the information or material described in Rule 194.2, 194.3, and 194.4.” Tex. Perhaps the most noticeable development in the new Texas Rules of Civil Procedure is the change of the former “Requests for Disclosure” to “Required Disclosures.” The following alert details the new changes and considerations for practitioners under the 2021 Amended Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. While these rules may be amended slightly from year to year, the changes that took effect on Janumaterially impact the practice of litigation in Texas – and worth a close read. From rules detailing what must be included in a lawsuit and what discovery is allowed in the lawsuit, to rules outlining the requirements for certain pretrial motions, trials, and post-judgment relief, the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure govern nearly every aspect of litigation in Texas.
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