§ 2034.410.Persons permitted to depose experts; procedural requirements

This section opens Article 3 with the basic authorization to depose a disclosed expert. Once a party receives an expert witness list from another party, receipt of that list is enough on its own to let any other party notice the deposition of any person named on it. No separate showing of need is required; disclosure through the exchange process is what triggers the right to depose.

Rather than build an entirely separate deposition procedure for experts, this section borrows the existing machinery. The rules for taking oral depositions in Chapter 9, written depositions in Chapter 10, and depositions of an entity's designated witness in Chapter 11 all apply to an expert deposition just as they would to any other deposition. The rest of Article 3, covering document production timing, location, and fees, layers modifications on top of that general framework rather than replacing it, so a practitioner deposing an expert still needs the ordinary deposition rules as the starting point.