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Chapter 10 (Rules 10.1 to 10.6): mandatory settlement conferences under CRC § 3.1380 (10.1) in every civil proceeding with a trial estimated at one day or more, applications to excuse attendance not less than five (5) days before, and an excused person available by telephone (10.2); the personal presence of the parties, corporate officers, trial counsel and insurers' representatives (10.3); Rule 10.4, Vacating Conference, printed without text; settlement conference statements lodged and served at least ten days before, with the special damages and, in family law cases, financial documents exchanged at least 21 days before (10.5); and sanctions (10.6).
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CHAPTER 10 MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE 10.1 Authority for Rules (eff. 6/30/91) The rules contained in this chapter are adopted pursuant to CRC § 3.1380. (eff. 6/30/91) 10.2 Time and Purpose of Conference (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011) A. Every civil proceeding in which the trial is estimated to be one day or more shall be set for a mandatory settlement conference at a time to be fixed by order of the court. The purpose of the conference is to produce a settlement of the case or to narrow the issues and evidence to be presented at trial. B. Any application to the court to excuse attendance of any person whose attendance is required by CRC § 3.1380(b) shall be made to the regularly assigned judicial officer not less than five (5) days before the date set for the settlement conference with copies of the request delivered concurrently to all other parties or their counsel. C. Any person whose presence at a settlement conference is required by CRC § 3.1380(b) may be excused by order of the court for good cause shown but, if so excused, shall be and remain immediately available for telephone communication with counsel and the court at the time set for and throughout the settlement conference. (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011) 10.3 Presence or Accessibility of Attorneys, Parties and Others (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2009, 1/1/2011) At the mandatory settlement conference, each party appearing in an action must be personally present unless excused by the judicial officer. Corporate parties must be represented by a responsible officer - other than counsel for such parties - authorized to make all decisions regarding the case subject only to approval of any governing board having the ultimate power to make such decisions. By way of illustrating the character of the representative of a governmental party, it is expected that the responsible officer, in the case of a city, would be the city manager or mayor and, in the case of a county, would be the county administrator or the chairperson of the board of supervisors. For every party appearing in the action, counsel who will actually try the case must attend the conference. In any tort case wherein a party who might be liable for damages has insurance coverage, the insurance company shall have present, throughout the entire duration of the conference, a representative who shall be authorized to make all decisions regarding the case unless excused by a judicial officer. (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2009, 1/1/2011) 10.4 Vacating Conference (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011) 10.5 Duties of Counsel and Parties Prior to Conference (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2009) A. At least ten days before the conference, each party shall lodge with the clerk and serve upon all parties or their counsel, a detailed settlement conference statement composed in accordance with CRC § 3.1380(c). The statement will not form a part of the clerk's file but will be retained separately and temporarily by the clerk following the conference. The settlement conference statement shall be in writing and shall describe the case and all relevant legal issues, factual issues, and conditions. The statement and supporting material must be sufficiently detailed to enable the settlement conference judge or pro tem judge to conduct a meaningful settlement conference. B. The attorney(s) for each party or each party representing themselves claiming damages shall include in the settlement conference statement a list of all special damages claimed, and shall supply corroborating evidence, to be available for examination by the settlement conference judge. In a personal injury action, the special damages for each plaintiff should be up-to-date listed separately, totaled, and categorized as health care (including medical, hospital, ambulance, and drugs) and loss of earnings, if any. In family law cases, all financial documents and information shall be informally exchanged at least 21 days prior to the conference. Opposing parties shall bring with them copies of all reports and records of all examining doctors or other experts employed by them or their insurance carriers(s), if any, who examined plaintiff’s claims, to be available for consideration by the settlement conference judge. C. All parties and their counsel shall organize in advance and bring to the conference such medical reports and records and any deposition (with relevant pages premarked), photographs, books, records, diagrams, maps, bills, contracts, memoranda, and all other documents pertinent to settlement of the case for examination by the settlement conference judge. (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2009) 10.6 Sanctions (eff. 6/30/91) The failure of any person to appear at, prepare for, or participate in good faith in a mandatory settlement conference, in conformity with the requirements of this chapter, unless good cause is shown for such failure, is an unlawful interference with the proceedings of the court and, in addition to any other sanction available, for such failure the court may order the person at fault to pay the opposing party's reasonable expenses and counsel fees, and may order an appropriate change in the calendar status of the action. (eff. 6/30/91)
CHAPTER 10 MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE 10.1 Authority for Rules (eff. 6/30/91) The rules contained in this chapter are adopted pursuant to CRC § 3.1380. (eff. 6/30/91) 10.2 Time and Purpose of Conference (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011) A. Every civil proceeding in which the trial is estimated to be one day or more shall be set for a mandatory settlement conference at a time to be fixed
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-10 (California T4 Lake build 2026-10-10) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-lake/docs/local-rules/local-rules-january-2026_v2.pdf (the court's rule book, its cover “SUPERIOR COURT, STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LAKE LOCAL RULES Effective 1/1/2026”, as fetched 2026-10-10; 852364 bytes, sha256 060a39793172b99fb99a1f839efb8fee0755a6d5c8c03d52d407d1d536399e9d; 69 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): the rule body (PDF pages 9 to 68; the chapters run on without page breaks) composed once and cut at the twenty chapter headings (“CHAPTER 1 ADOPTION AND APPLICABILITY OF RULES” to “CHAPTER 20 ELECTRONIC FILING”), the chapters reassembling the body exactly: each page's running header (“Superior Court, County of Lake”) and footer (the page number) removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the rules' paragraphs; Rule 5.8's ruled table (Case Plan Disposition Time Standards and Court Events, pages 29 and 30) read cell by cell by the table finder; no struck run on any of the 69 pages (review/strike-report-2026-10-10.txt); 22 whitespace-only fixes (build/book-fixes.json: Rule 5.8's table cells' lettered items and paragraphs set on their own lines (10); Rule 8.6's plans and its item 3 (3); Rule 3.13's history note (1); Rule 11.5's default fee schedule set row by row (1); the subheadings of Rules 3.5 (at a page break) and 4.10(c) set on their own lines (2); Rule 5.9's form number FL-105 and the word “denial” its Rule 5.9(E) prints across three lines set whole (2); and the sentences of Rules 9.4, 10.3 and 5.4(B) rejoined where the composition broke them before an inline item, a dash and a capitalized word (3)) and 1 same-character fix (build/book-captions.json: Rule 16.3(B)'s list of remote proceeding calendars, printed in two columns, set group by group); the vertical-gap, short-line, page-break, bold-line, row and false-break audits find no other; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. The cover, the table of contents, the three local forms the book prints (LK-108, LKSC-420 and LK-117) and the index belong to no card. Review note: Rule 10.4, "Vacating Conference (eff. 6/30/91 amd. 1/1/2010, 1/1/2011)", prints its heading and no text (page 45): whether the rule's text was omitted from the book is a review task.
Division XI: information forms for data processing (Rule 11.2); required action - action taken on all calendared cases and a future date always set (Rule 11.19); and pro tem judges - an attorney named as a plaintiff in a civil or small claims case may not sit as a judge pro-tem during the case or within six months following its resolution, nor one named as a defendant in two or more such cases (Rule 11.22). Rules 11.1, 11.3 to 11.5, 11.7 to 11.18, 11.20 and 11.21 are repealed, and Rule 11.6 (voluntary arbitration; see Local Rule 10.2) was repealed and renumbered.
Duval County's indigent-defense and magistration rules under the Texas Fair Defense Act (S.B. 7): who may be booked into the county jail and on what paper; arrest-case numbering; presentment to a magistrate within 48 hours (art. 15.16); the magistrate's warnings, counsel inquiry, interpreter duty, indigence determination and appointment of counsel within 24 hours of a request; the alternative appointment plan under art. 26.04(g)-(h) with annual applications, seven attorney categories (capital, first and second degree, third degree/state jail/misdemeanor, competency, appeals, post-conviction, extradition), CLE and experience standards, random rotation within each category, written acceptance within 48 hours, first contact by the end of the next working day, replacement and suspension of counsel, fee applications within five days of completing services and the compensation attachment ($500 pleas; $175/$150 hourly; $1,400 per jury-trial day; appellate caps); bail schedules by offense class with a personal bond office (fee $20 or 3%), pre-trial supervision and revocation hearings within two working days; arraignment settings and notice; repeal of conflicting rules.