How is the Illinois discovery cutoff established before trial?

Obtain the controlling case-management order and all actual modifications.

Identify the court’s reasonably anticipated trial date and each ordered witness or discovery date.

Establish any party agreement altering the 60-day requirement and preserve the actual procedural record.

1. Obtain the controlling case-management order and all actual modifications.
2. Read the actual dates in the controlling order first. Compare the qualified 60-day-before-trial constraint separately. A party agreement may waive or modify that constraint without altering trial, as the official committee comment explains.
3. Check statutory holidays and the proper court’s actual calendar.
4. Complete the particular written discovery, deposition or witness disclosure by its actual governing date. Preserve the controlling order, amendments, agreement, completed responses and service proof.

A minimum notice period counted backward needs the actual hearing calendar and timely effective notice. Section 1.11 does not supply this preset with an automatic backward landing-day adjustment. Preserve the nominal boundary and review a weekend, statutory holiday, special order or local closure separately. Do not move a minimum notice date forward and shorten the required notice.

The actual case-management order, its modifications and any party agreement determine discovery dates. The qualified sixty-day scheduling constraint alone cannot supply the complete party deadline.

The order controls unless modified

Paragraph (c) requires an order recording court action, agreements and unresolved trial issues. That order controls the subsequent action unless modified.

The 60-day requirement is qualified

Paragraph (c) permits a different party agreement. Its October 4, 2002 committee comment explains that parties may waive or modify the 60-day rule without changing the trial date.

Witness deadlines include rebuttal witnesses

The dates selected for witness disclosure, including rebuttal witnesses, and discovery completion must satisfy the stated scheduling requirement unless otherwise agreed.

• The calculator does not decide the applicable civil procedure, disputed facts, sufficiency of a filing or whether the court grants relief.
• Check the governing edition and actual orders. A current rule does not establish every historical case’s timetable.

• Obtain the controlling case-management order and all actual modifications.
• Identify the court’s reasonably anticipated trial date and each ordered witness or discovery date.
• Establish any party agreement altering the 60-day requirement and preserve the actual procedural record.
• Paragraph (c) requires an order recording court action, agreements and unresolved trial issues. That order controls the subsequent action unless modified.
• Paragraph (c) permits a different party agreement. Its October 4, 2002 committee comment explains that parties may waive or modify the 60-day rule without changing the trial date.
• The dates selected for witness disclosure, including rebuttal witnesses, and discovery completion must satisfy the stated scheduling requirement unless otherwise agreed.
• Complete the particular written discovery, deposition or witness disclosure by its actual governing date. Preserve the controlling order, amendments, agreement, completed responses and service proof.