{"id":3663,"date":"2014-05-27T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2016-08-31T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:01:11","slug":"illinois-corporations-can-deposed-illinois-supreme-court-rule-206a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-corporations-can-deposed-illinois-supreme-court-rule-206a1\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Corporations Can Be Deposed; Illinois Supreme Court Rule 206(a)(1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys should be aware that corporations can be deposed by authority of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 206. In Illinois, a deposition notice pursuant to that Supreme Court rule would require the corporate party or government entity to designate and produce for deposition a witness to give testimony at a discovery deposition on behalf of the corporation with respect to the facts set out in the notice of deposition. This would be the person most knowledgeable about the corporation and those relevant facts. The corporation would be obliged to produce one or more of its officers, directors, agents, employees or other persons who have knowledge on the subject matter of the inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Supreme Court rule is similar to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/rules\/frcp\/rule_30\">Federal Rule 30(b)(6). <\/a>A designated representative who gives testimony under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 206(a) may not be contradicted by any other corporate representative at trial. SCR 206(a)(1) also grants subpoena power to depose a corporate representative who is a non-party to the case. In the subpoena it should be explained what the subject matter of the deposition would be; what matters known are reasonably available to the corporation should be made available at the deposition.<\/p>\n<p>The corporate representative\u2019s testimony is binding on the company. Testimony given at a deposition may be considered a party admission that precludes the corporation or a party in the lawsuit from contesting the essential elements of its claims or defenses later on in the litigation. In some cases, the corporate representative with the most knowledge may be a former employee of the corporation, partnership or entity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-corporations-can-deposed-illinois-supreme-court-rule-206a1\/#more-3663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys should be aware that corporations can be deposed by authority of Illinois Supreme Court Rule 206. 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