Reply by HisHughness on 6/19/04 10:48pm
Msg #3236
Depositions are testimony taken under oath, either by examination or by written questions propounded by a party to a lawsuit, which are answered in writing. My experience as a lawyer was that notaries never were involved in depositions by examination; those were always done by a court reporter who incidentally is a notary. Written responses to interrogatories, as they are called in Texas and Georgia and probably most other states, can be attested to by a notary, though, since the notary doesn't need to take down testimony.
It is a smart -- and successful -- lawyer who goes into court knowing his opponent's case as well as his own. One of the primary ways he obtains that knowledge is through depositions.
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