C-Suite Deposition Season is Open in Georgia
Highlights
Georgia Supreme Court determines federal law governing depositions of executives inapplicable in Georgia due to broader discovery rules
The ruling noted that high-ranking corporate executives are not immune from discovery
Good cause to obtain a protective order is not necessarily satisfied simply because the executive lacks knowledge of the details at issue in the case
The responsibility of a chief executive officer and the rest of the C-suite is to direct the workings of a business entity at the top levels. For this reason, a C-suite executive is rarely intimately familiar with the specific issues within a corporation. Requiring executives to obtain specific knowledge causes the executive to be unnecessarily bogged down in the minutia of the business, rather than relying on the corporate hierarchy working together to move the business forward.
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