Under Illinois’s Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, a foreign subpoena is submitted to the circuit clerk of the county where discovery is sought, who issues an Illinois subpoena. The Act requires no local attorney. Served 123 LLC gets it issued and served.
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Served 123 LLC handles Illinois subpoena domestication in all 102 counties. The county in which discovery is sought to be conducted decides which circuit clerk issues it, and the clerk’s fee is part of your quote; the clerk directory below lists each office.
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Section 3.5 bars a clerk from issuing on a foreign subpoena tied to lawful health care activity, meaning reproductive health care or gender-affirming care, or to another state’s law interfering with Reproductive Health Act rights, unless an exception applies and a sworn attestation identifies it. Flag such records under Special Instructions.
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Our quote covers document preparation, the clerk’s fee and service if ordered.
The Act sets the venue and the clerk’s duty; Supreme Court Rule 17 adds the attestation, the e-mail counsel list and the certificate of service. Five stops carry a subpoena from an out-of-state case to a witness in Illinois.
The foreign subpoena goes to a clerk of the circuit court in the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted; the request is not an appearance in Illinois courts.
The request carries the Supreme Court’s attestation form, which we prepare and the requester signs under penalty of perjury, and any documentation local circuit court rule requires; the clerk shall not issue a subpoena if any of it is missing.
Each request is assigned a Miscellaneous Remedy case number and is filed in accordance with Supreme Court Rules 17, 201 and 204, whether the out-of-state proceeding is civil or criminal.
Unless section 3.5 bars it, the clerk promptly issues an Illinois subpoena that incorporates the terms used in the foreign subpoena and contains or comes with the names, addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of all counsel of record and of any party not represented by counsel.
Service follows Rules 204 and 237 and section 2-1101; the person serving files a certificate of service with the clerk and serves the witness with it, the issued subpoena and everything submitted to the clerk.
Illinois took the Uniform Act in by statute, Public Act 99-79, and the Supreme Court added Rule 17 in March 2023 after Public Act 102-1117. Below, their own words on where the foreign subpoena goes, what must come with it, what the clerk does and what the person serving must file.
To request issuance of a subpoena under this Section, a party must submit a foreign subpoena to a clerk of court in the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted in this State. A request for the issuance of a subpoena under this Act does not constitute an appearance in the courts of this State.
When a party submits a foreign subpoena to a clerk of court in this State, the clerk, in accordance with that court's procedure, shall promptly issue a subpoena for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed unless issuance is prohibited by Section 3.5.
To request issuance of a subpoena pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, a person shall submit to a clerk of the circuit court in the county in which discovery is sought to be conducted the following: (1) a foreign subpoena; (2) an attestation form fully completed under penalty of perjury in the form authorized by the Supreme Court and found in the Article I Forms Appendix; (3) any other documentation required by local circuit court rule; and (4) any other document required by the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act. Upon receipt of all required documentation and in accordance with the circuit court's procedure, the clerk of the circuit court shall promptly issue a subpoena for service upon the person to which the foreign subpoena is directed unless prohibited under paragraph (c) of this rule.
The clerk of the circuit court shall not issue a subpoena if the person requesting the subpoena fails to submit all documents as required by paragraph (b) of this rule. The clerk of the circuit court shall not issue a subpoena if the request for issuance is not in compliance with section 3.5 of the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act (735 ILCS 35/3.5).
A subpoena under paragraph (b) shall: (1) incorporate the terms used in the foreign subpoena; (2) contain or be accompanied by the names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of all counsel of record in the proceeding to which the subpoena relates and of any party not represented by counsel; (3) comply with all local circuit court rules; and (4) comply with all requirements of the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act.
A person serving a subpoena issued pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act shall file a certificate of service with the clerk of the circuit court and serve the recipient of the subpoena with the certificate of service, subpoena issued by the clerk of the circuit court, and a copy of all documents submitted to the clerk of the circuit court.
In Cascade Builders Corp. v. Rugar, No. 1-19-2410, 2021 IL App (1st) 192410, the First District held that a motion to quash a subpoena issued under the Act must comply with Illinois rules and statutes, including at a minimum Illinois choice-of-law principles, under section 6.
No reported Illinois appellate decision has yet interpreted section 3.5 or Supreme Court Rule 17; their own text governs the attestation, the clerk’s issuance and the certificate of service.
Official texts: 735 ILCS 35; Illinois Supreme Court Rule 17 and Rules 201 and 204; 735 ILCS 5/2-1101; 705 ILCS 35/4.3; 735 ILCS 40/28-10; the Manual on Recordkeeping; Ill. R. Evid. 902; 45 C.F.R. § 164.512. General information, not legal advice. The official text controls.
Served 123 LLC prepares the Rule 17 request for the circuit clerk and has the Illinois subpoena served.
Get a Free Quote Online →Section 4 of the Act and Rule 17(e) send every subpoena the clerk issues through Supreme Court Rules 204 and 237 and section 2-1101 of the Code of Civil Procedure. These cards cover how it is served, the certificate of service, witness fees and tender, where a witness complies, the parties’ contact list, motions after service and protective orders. For a summons or other court papers, see process service in Illinois.
Section 4 of the Act: “A subpoena issued by a clerk of court under Section 3 must be served in compliance with Illinois Supreme Court Rules 204 and 237 and Section 2-1101 of the Code of Civil Procedure.” Rule 204(a)(2) also speaks to service by mail: certified or registered, restricted delivery, return receipt requested, with a check or money order for the fee and mileage enclosed.
735 ILCS 35/4; Rule 204(a)(2)Rule 17(e): the person serving the subpoena “shall file a certificate of service with the clerk of the circuit court and serve the recipient of the subpoena with the certificate of service, subpoena issued by the clerk of the circuit court, and a copy of all documents submitted to the clerk of the circuit court.” Mail proof takes a receipt showing delivery “at least seven days before the date on which appearance is required.”
Rule 17(e); 204(a)(2)Section 4.3 sets “the sum of $20 for each day's attendance and $0.20 per mile each way for necessary travel” for a witness attending in any county upon trials in the courts, and a deponent “shall receive the same per diem and mileage as provided in this Section for witnesses in circuit courts.” No fee is allowed “unless the witness makes an affidavit stating the number of days he or she actually attended, and that attendance was at the instance of one or both of the parties or his or her attorney.”
705 ILCS 35/4.3Rule 204(a)(2): “A deponent shall respond to any lawful subpoena of which the deponent has actual knowledge, if payment of the fee and mileage has been tendered.” When the subpoena goes by mail, the affidavit proving service has to show it went “with a check or money order for the fee and mileage enclosed.” Section 4.3 sets both amounts for trial and deposition witnesses alike, and for attending in a foreign county, “each day's travel shall constitute a day of attendance.”
Rule 204(a)(2)Section 9.5: “A subpoena issued under this Act may not require compliance outside a deponent's county of residence in the State of Illinois.” The deposition, production or inspection the Illinois subpoena commands must be set inside that county, wherever the out-of-state case is pending.
735 ILCS 35/9.5The issued subpoena must contain or come with the names, addresses, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers of every counsel of record and every party without counsel. Rule 201(o) adds that “a copy of any discovery request under these rules to any nonparty shall be filed with the clerk in accord with Rule 104(b).”
Rule 17(d)(2); 201(o)Section 6: an application “for a protective order or to enforce, quash, or modify” the subpoena “must comply with the rules or statutes of this State and be submitted to the court in the county in which discovery is to be conducted.” Section 2-1101 lets that court quash or modify any subpoena for good cause shown.
735 ILCS 35/6; 5/2-1101Rule 201(c)(1): “The court may at any time on its own initiative, or on motion of any party or witness, make a protective order as justice requires, denying, limiting, conditioning, or regulating discovery to prevent unreasonable annoyance, expense, embarrassment, disadvantage, or oppression.”
Rule 201(c)(1)Served 123 LLC serves the Illinois subpoena and the Rule 17(e) papers with it, along with any tender owed.
Get a Free Quote Online →A subpoena for documents alone goes to the same discovery county clerk as one for a deposition, and Rules 204 and 237 and section 2-1101 apply to it. These cards cover section 3.5’s bar on subpoenas for lawful health care activity, nonparty physicians, HIPAA’s routes for a subpoena without a court order, production without a deposition, and the custodian’s certification under Ill. R. Evid. 902(11).
Section 3.5(b): “No clerk of court shall issue a subpoena based on a foreign subpoena that: (1) requests information or documents related to lawful health care activity, as defined in the Lawful Health Care Activity Act; or (2) is related to the enforcement of another state's law that would interfere with an individual's rights under the Reproductive Health Act.” Section 28-10 defines lawful health care as “(1) reproductive health care that is not unlawful under the laws of this State” or “(2) the treatment of gender dysphoria or the affirmation of an individual's gender identity or gender expression, including, but not limited to, all supplies, care, and services of a medical, behavioral health, mental health, surgical, psychiatric, therapeutic, diagnostic, preventative, rehabilitative, or supportive nature that is not unlawful under the laws of this State,” each “including on any theory of vicarious, joint, several, or conspiracy liability,” and the activity as “seeking, providing, receiving, assisting in seeking, providing, or receiving, providing material support for, or traveling to obtain lawful health care.” Section 3.5(a): “If a request for issuance of a subpoena pursuant to this Act seeks documents or information related to lawful health care activity, as defined in the Lawful Health Care Activity Act, or seeks documents in support of any claim that interferes with rights under the Reproductive Health Act, then the person or entity requesting the subpoena shall include an attestation, signed under penalty of perjury, confirming and identifying that an exemption in subsection (c) applies.”
735 ILCS 35/3.5; 735 ILCS 40/28-10Two kinds of out-of-state action can qualify, each only if a similar claim would exist under Illinois law. Under 3.5(c), “A clerk of court may issue the subpoena if the subpoena includes the attestation as described in subsection (a) and the subpoena relates to:” “(1) an out-of-state action founded in tort, contract, or statute brought by the patient who sought or received the lawful health care or the patient's authorized legal representative, for damages suffered by the patient or damages derived from an individual's loss of consortium of the patient, and for which a similar claim would exist under the laws of this State” or “(2) an out-of-state action founded in contract brought or sought to be enforced by a party with a contractual relationship with the individual whose documents or information are the subject of the subpoena and for which a similar claim would exist under the laws of this State.” The attestation has to identify which one applies, and section 3.5(a) adds a consequence for whoever signs it: “Submission of such attestation shall subject the attestor to the jurisdiction of the courts of this State for any suit, penalty, or damages arising out of a false attestation under this Section.” The same subsection sets a statutory penalty for a false or missing attestation: “Any false attestation submitted under this Section or the failure to submit an attestation required by this Section shall be subject to a statutory penalty of $10,000 per violation.” Rule 17(c) repeats the bar for Illinois circuit court clerks: the clerk “shall not issue a subpoena if the request for issuance is not in compliance with section 3.5” of the Act.
Sec. 3.5(a), (c); Rule 17(c)Section 3.5(d): “Any person or entity served with a subpoena reasonably believed to be issued in violation of this Section shall not comply with the subpoena.” Under 3.5(e), the recipient, or the person whose lawful health care it concerns, “may, but is not required to, move to modify or quash the subpoena.” Section 3.5(f): “No court shall issue an order compelling a person or entity to comply with a subpoena found to be in violation of this Section.”
Sec. 3.5(d)–(f), 735 ILCS 35Rule 204(c): “The discovery depositions of nonparty physicians being deposed in their professional capacity may be taken only with the agreement of the parties and the subsequent consent of the deponent or under a subpoena issued upon order of court. A party shall pay a reasonable fee to a physician for the time he or she will spend testifying at any such deposition.” The party at whose instance it is taken pays, unless the physician was retained for trial or the court orders otherwise.
Rule 204(c)Section 3.5 comes first: a request on lawful health care activity has to clear the cards above. After that, 45 C.F.R. 164.512(e)(1)(ii) lets a covered entity disclose protected health information “In response to a subpoena, discovery request, or other lawful process, that is not accompanied by an order of a court or administrative tribunal, if:” “(A) The covered entity receives satisfactory assurance, as described in paragraph (e)(1)(iii) of this section, from the party seeking the information that reasonable efforts have been made by such party to ensure that the individual who is the subject of the protected health information that has been requested has been given notice of the request; or” “(B) The covered entity receives satisfactory assurance, as described in paragraph (e)(1)(iv) of this section, from the party seeking the information that reasonable efforts have been made by such party to secure a qualified protective order that meets the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(v) of this section.” The next cards take each route; any motion on the Illinois subpoena itself stays in the discovery county under section 6.
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(ii)On the notice route an Illinois custodian checks three showings, under one lead-in: “For the purposes of paragraph (e)(1)(ii)(A) of this section, a covered entity receives satisfactory assurances from a party seeking protected health information if the covered entity receives from such party a written statement and accompanying documentation demonstrating that:” (A) “The party requesting such information has made a good faith attempt to provide written notice to the individual (or, if the individual's location is unknown, to mail a notice to the individual's last known address);” (B) “The notice included sufficient information about the litigation or proceeding in which the protected health information is requested to permit the individual to raise an objection to the court or administrative tribunal; and” (C) “The time for the individual to raise objections to the court or administrative tribunal has elapsed, and: (1) No objections were filed; or (2) All objections filed by the individual have been resolved by the court or the administrative tribunal and the disclosures being sought are consistent with such resolution.”
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(iii)Paragraph (e)(1)(iv): “For the purposes of paragraph (e)(1)(ii)(B) of this section, a covered entity receives satisfactory assurances from a party seeking protected health information, if the covered entity receives from such party a written statement and accompanying documentation demonstrating that:” “(A) The parties to the dispute giving rise to the request for information have agreed to a qualified protective order and have presented it to the court or administrative tribunal with jurisdiction over the dispute; or” “(B) The party seeking the protected health information has requested a qualified protective order from such court or administrative tribunal.”
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(iv)Paragraph (e)(1)(v): “For purposes of paragraph (e)(1) of this section, a qualified protective order means, with respect to protected health information requested under paragraph (e)(1)(ii) of this section, an order of a court or of an administrative tribunal or a stipulation by the parties to the litigation or administrative proceeding that:” “(A) Prohibits the parties from using or disclosing the protected health information for any purpose other than the litigation or proceeding for which such information was requested; and” “(B) Requires the return to the covered entity or destruction of the protected health information (including all copies made) at the end of the litigation or proceeding.”
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(v)Paragraph (e)(1)(vi): “Notwithstanding paragraph (e)(1)(ii) of this section, a covered entity may disclose protected health information in response to lawful process described in paragraph (e)(1)(ii) of this section without receiving satisfactory assurance under paragraph (e)(1)(ii)(A) or (B) of this section, if the covered entity makes reasonable efforts to provide notice to the individual sufficient to meet the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(iii) of this section or to seek a qualified protective order sufficient to meet the requirements of paragraph (e)(1)(v) of this section.”
45 C.F.R. § 164.512(e)(1)(vi)Rule 204(a)(4): “The notice, order or stipulation to take a deposition may specify that the appearance of the deponent is excused, and that no deposition will be taken, if copies of specified documents or tangible things are served on the party or attorney requesting the same by a date certain. That party or attorney shall serve all requesting parties of record at least three days prior to the scheduled deposition, with true and complete copies of all documents, and shall make available for inspection tangible things, or other materials furnished, and shall file a certificate of compliance with the court.”
Rule 204(a)(4)Rule 204(a)(4) goes on: “Unless otherwise ordered or agreed, reasonable charges by the deponent for production in accordance with this procedure shall be paid by the party requesting the same, and all other parties shall pay reasonable copying and delivery charges for materials they receive. A copy of any subpoena issued in connection with such a deposition shall be attached to the notice and immediately filed with the court, not less than 14 days prior to the scheduled deposition. The use of this procedure shall not bar the taking of any person’s deposition or limit the scope of same.”
Rule 204(a)(4)Illinois Rule of Evidence 902(11) covers “The original or a duplicate of a record of regularly conducted activity that would be admissible under Rule 803(6) if accompanied by a written certification of its custodian or other qualified person that the record (A) was made at or near the time of the occurrence of the matters set forth by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge of these matters; (B) was kept in the course of the regularly conducted activity; and (C) was made by the regularly conducted activity as a regular practice.”
Ill. R. Evid. 902(11)Rule 902(11) defines “certification” for both kinds of record. As “used in this subsection” the word “means with respect to a domestic record, a written declaration under oath subject to the penalty of perjury and, with respect to a record maintained or located in a foreign country, a written declaration signed in a country which, if falsely made, would subject the maker to criminal penalty under the laws of the country.”
Ill. R. Evid. 902(11)Every record offered under Rule 902(11), domestic or foreign, carries one condition: “A party intending to offer a record into evidence under this paragraph must provide written notice of that intention to all adverse parties, and must make the record and certification available for inspection sufficiently in advance of their offer into evidence to provide an adverse party with a fair opportunity to challenge them.”
Ill. R. Evid. 902(11)Served 123 LLC handles the clerk’s issuance and service of an Illinois subpoena that commands production.
Get a Free Quote Online →These are the mistakes to avoid with a foreign subpoena in Illinois, from the circuit clerk’s intake to the witness and the certificate of service.
Served 123 LLC checks every request it prepares and every service it makes against these points. A motion after service belongs to a party or the witness; we tell you which Illinois court hears it.
Search or pick the county where the deposition or production is to take place to see which circuit clerk issues the subpoena there, then start a quote; the clerk directory below lists all 102 offices. Check the county against the section 9.5 residence limit first.
Each office as listed in the Illinois Courts directory of circuit court clerks, with DuPage’s street address from its local rules.
How Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky take in a foreign subpoena next to Illinois’s 735 ILCS 35: the law that governs it, whether the law itself requires a local attorney and who issues the subpoena, each from the state’s own statute or rule. “Check” marks a neighbor whose own filing rules leave the local-attorney question open.
| State | Act Adopted | Local Attorney Required by the Act | Who Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 735 ILCS 35, a statute in force since January 1, 2016, with Supreme Court Rule 17 | No | Circuit clerk, discovery county |
| Indiana | IC 34-44.5-1 (P.L.57-2010) | Check | Clerk of court, discovery county |
| Wisconsin | Wis. Stat. § 887.24 (S. Ct. Order 13-16A, 2016) | Check | Clerk of circuit court, discovery county |
| Iowa | Iowa R. Civ. P. 1.1702 (2013) | Check | Clerk of court, a signed blank subpoena |
| Missouri | Mo. Sup. Ct. R. 57.08 (no Uniform Act) | Check | Circuit court order on ex parte application, county where the deponent is found |
| Kentucky | KRS 421.360 (2008 Ky. Acts ch. 114) | Check | Circuit Court clerk, discovery county |
Every answer cites the Illinois statute, rule or official source behind it. For questions that apply in every state, see our Subpoena Domestication FAQ. General information, not legal advice.
Yes. The Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act sits in chapter 735 of the state’s Compiled Statutes as Act 35 and took effect at the start of 2016. Since March 17, 2023, the Supreme Court’s Rule 17 has controlled each request made under it, and Rule 204(b)(2) points deposition practice there too. The Act and rule section quotes both.
The circuit clerk for the county in which the deposition, production or inspection will take place; section 3(a) of the Act and Rule 17(b) both tie the request to that county. Section 9.5 separately keeps compliance inside the deponent’s county of residence, so settle the place of compliance first. The clerk directory lists every office.
It is the statewide form every circuit clerk expects with a Rule 17 request. Served 123 LLC prepares it; the requesting attorney, or a requester without an attorney, signs it under penalty of perjury, and the sworn answers are the signer’s own. Rule 17(b)(2) makes it mandatory, so a request that arrives without it gets no Illinois subpoena. The rule text has the detail.
Four items under Rule 17(b): the foreign subpoena, the completed attestation, whatever a local circuit court rule adds, and anything the Act itself demands. Issuance waits until the last of them arrives, and Rule 17(c) bars the clerk from issuing on a partial set. Route stop 2 walks through it.
Not under the Act’s text. Section 3(a) says asking the clerk to issue a subpoena is not an appearance in a court of this state, and Rule 17(b) speaks of “a person” who submits the papers rather than an Illinois attorney. A section 3.5 attestation is different: see what the attestor takes on. Served 123 LLC prepares the request and gets it issued; see route stop 1.
Four things under Rule 17(d): the foreign subpoena’s terms, a contact list for every lawyer of record and every unrepresented party, e-mail and phone included, compliance with the circuit’s local rules, and compliance with the Act. The rule text quotes all four, and the contact list card covers the list.
The way any deposition subpoena in the state is served. Section 4 of the Act sends it through Rules 204 and 237 and section 2-1101, so a subpoena issued here gets no separate method, and the mailed route carries its own delivery and enclosure terms. See how it is served.
A certificate of service. Under Rule 17(e) it is filed with the circuit clerk and served on the witness, along with the clerk-issued subpoena and copies of everything the clerk received. When Served 123 LLC serves the subpoena, that certificate is filed and served too. The proof of service card quotes the rule.
No. Section 9.5 bars a subpoena issued under the Act from requiring compliance outside the deponent’s county of residence in Illinois, so a witness living in one county cannot be ordered to a deposition, a document production or an inspection in another. The place of compliance card quotes the section.
Every counsel of record and every unrepresented party, by name, address, e-mail address and telephone number: Rule 17(d)(2) puts those details on or with the issued subpoena. The clerk’s file gets a copy of a nonparty request too, by Rule 201(o). See the contact list card.
Yes. Rule 204(a)(2) accepts as prima facie proof a return receipt showing delivery to the deponent or an authorized agent at least seven days before the appearance date, together with an affidavit that the mailing was prepaid and sent restricted delivery with the fee and mileage inside. See how it is served.
The statute fixes it: section 4.3 of the Circuit Courts Act, 705 ILCS 35/4.3, pays $20 per day and $0.20 per mile, counted both ways, and a deposition witness is paid at the same rates. See the witness fee card.
Not until the fee and mileage have been tendered. Illinois Supreme Court Rule 204(a)(2) makes a deponent’s duty to respond to a lawful subpoena depend on actual knowledge of it and on that tender. We advance any tender owed. The rule’s full wording is on the tender card.
The circuit court of the county where discovery is to be conducted, applying this state’s rules and statutes, under section 6 of the Act. Section 2-1101 asks for good cause to quash or modify the subpoena, and a protective order is sought from that same local circuit court. See motions after service.
Yes. Section 6 of the Act sends the application to the circuit court of the discovery county, and Rule 201(c)(1) lets that court act on a witness’s motion, or on its own, to deny, limit, condition or regulate discovery as justice requires. The protective orders card quotes the rule in full.
Not if the records concern lawful health care activity, meaning reproductive health care or treatment of gender dysphoria or affirmation of gender identity, when not unlawful in Illinois, or the request serves an out-of-state law that interferes with rights under the Reproductive Health Act, unless an exception in section 3.5(c) of the Act applies and the requester attests to it under penalty of perjury. The health-care card quotes the section.
Decline to comply. Section 3.5(d) of the Act tells a person or entity served with a subpoena reasonably believed to violate that section not to comply, and section 3.5(e) leaves a motion to modify or quash optional for the recipient or the patient. See a recipient’s duty.
Yes. The request is opened as a Miscellaneous Remedy case, and under section 27.1b of the Clerks of Courts Act the county board sets the clerk’s fees by ordinance or resolution unless the statute itself fixes the amount, payable in advance. Your written Served 123 LLC quote already includes that county’s fee. Route stop 3 covers the MR case.
No. Section 3(b) of the Act and Rule 17(b) both say “promptly,” and neither names a number of days. Under Rule 17(c), a missing attestation or local-rule paper stops issuance altogether, and so does a request that does not comply with section 3.5. See route stop 4. Enter your compliance date as the Requested Deadline in the form so your written quote addresses it.
Not in the Act or Rule 17. For mail service, Rule 204(a)(2) proof needs a return receipt showing delivery at least seven days before the appearance date, so a mailed subpoena goes out well ahead of the date it commands. See how it is served.
Two dates count back from the deposition date in the notice. Rule 204(a)(4) wants the notice, with the subpoena attached, on file at least two weeks ahead, and every requesting party of record holding what was produced at least three days ahead. The notice also sets its own date certain for the copies, and meeting it is what excuses the appearance. See production without a deposition.
One written quote covers document preparation, the circuit clerk’s fee and service, when you order service.
