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County-civil analog of AO 24-20: streamlined/general pathway deadlines (service, discovery, pretrial motions, mediation, projected trial) for cases filed on/after 1/1/2025. Rescinds AO 21-08.
Verbatim from the operative section of this order, re-extracted 2026-07-26; whitespace normalised only. • For All New Cases Filed on Or After January 1, 2025: A case management order must be entered no later than 120 days after the filing of the action in accordance with Exhibit A. B. Content • For each streamlined and general civil case, the case management order must at a minimum specify the deadlines for service of complaints, service under extensions, and adding new parties; and the deadlines by which: fact and expert discovery must be completed; motions for summary judgment must be filed and served; all objections to pleadings and pretrial motions must be filed and resolved; and mediation/alternative dispute resolution must be resolved. The case management order must also specify the projected date of trial; indicate that the deadlines established in the order will be strictly enforced by the court unless changed by court order; and indicate that a firm trial date will be ordered by the presiding judge no later than 45 days before the projected trial period set forth in this case management order pursuant to Florida Rules of Civil Procedure 1.440. • The maximum deadlines specified pursuant to this subsection, as well as the projected date of trial, must be consistent with the time standards specified in Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration 2.250(a)(1)(B) for the completion of civil cases.
For All New Cases Filed on Or After January 1, 2025: A case management order must be entered no later than 120 days after the filing of the action in accordance with Exhibit A. B. Content
Reviewer note: | Set to in_review 2026-07-26: the order's subject looks practitioner-facing but the extracted text captured only recitals or an effective date, not the operative ORDERED section. This is an extraction defect, not a judgement that the order is unimportant — it needs re-extraction before it goes back on the published surface. | Re-extracted 2026-07-26 from the numbered paragraphs following the order's ORDERED clause, replacing a first pass that had captured recitals and the effective date.
2 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1986-33A.
1 verbatim requirement from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1987-09.