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The apex doctrine is a common-law limitation on deposing corporate executives where the executive has limited personal knowledge of the relevant issues or where the same information can be obtained from other sources, notes Caroline A. Veniero in her February Illinois Bar Journal article, “Deposing the Top Dog.” But as handy as the doctrine may be for top execs, it is far from absolute.
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