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Rule 62.01 – Case Management Conferences

May 13, 2021 | Civil Procedure, Missouri

In any civil action, the court may in its discretion direct the attorneys for the parties to appear before it for a conference to consider:

(1) The simplification of the issues;
(2) The necessity or desirability of amendments to the pleadings;
(3) The possibility of obtaining admissions of fact and of documents which will avoid unnecessary proof;
(4) The limitation of the number of expert witnesses;
(5) The advisability of a preliminary reference of issues to a master for findings to be used as evidence when the trial is to be by jury;
(6) Such other matters as may aid in the disposition of the action.
(7) The time for disclosure of experts;
(8)When documents prepared, reviewed, or received by a retained expert must be disclosed;
(9) Whether and to what extent any retained expert must disclose his or her publications;
(10) Whether and to what extent any retained expert must disclose prior deposition or trial testimony or expert reports prepared under either Rule 26(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or an equivalent state rule;
(11) Such other matters as may aid in the disposition of the action.

The court shall make an order that recites the action taken at the case management conference. The order, when entered, controls the subsequent course of the action, unless modified to prevent manifest injustice. The court may establish by rule a pre-trial calendar on which civil actions may be placed for consideration as above provided and may either confine the calendar to jury actions or to non-jury actions or extend it to all civil actions.

Mo. R. Civ. P. 62.01

Adopted March 29, 1974, eff. Jan. 1, 1975; amended June 26, 2012, eff. Jan. 1, 2013.

Committee Note – 1974

This is the same as Rule 16 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.