Defending corporate representative depositions in the new reality.
If there is one lesson all trial lawyers have learned over the last year, it’s that life and the practice of law must go on, even in the face of upheavals affecting our profession. Depositions of corporate representative witnesses under Rule 30(b)(6), Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is a prime example of how lawyersmust learn to adapt to changing times and circumstances.
Rule 30(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, along with its state equivalents, has become an integral part of trial practice defending corporations. The Coronavirus pandemic, however, has caused dramatic changes in practice under this Rule, along with alterations in many other aspects of law practice. These changes are all too familiar to most trial counsel, and need not be discussed in detail here.