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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Beverly Hills Courthouse, Department 207 (Judge Michael E. Whitaker): Courtroom Information

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Beverly Hills Courthouse, Department 207, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles; served by the court's Courtroom Information application (https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/apps/courtroom-information) at https://www.lacourt.ca.gov/web3/courthouse/api/courthouses/courtroom-information/courthouse/BH/courtrooms/207/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department 207's courtroom information (Beverly Hills Courthouse): civility and professionalism; filings; electronically lodged documents that require the court's action; service of summonses, complaints and cross-complaints; case management conferences; status conferences on discovery, alternative dispute resolution and motion practice; appearances in person or remotely; settlement; jury fees; motions (set Monday through Thursday, tentative rulings usually posted the afternoon before), continuing and withdrawing hearings, filing, and courtesy copies (lodged no later than three court days before the hearing for the motions the sheet lists; an earlier courtesy-copy paragraph is struck through on the sheet); discovery motions and informal discovery conferences; motions for summary judgment or adjudication; ex parte applications (8:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, usually decided in chambers on the papers); final status conferences (typically Fridays, ten days before a Monday trial date); and court reporters - with the department's trial preparation orders for bench and jury trials.

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Beverly Hills Courthouse > Department 207

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY COURTROOM INFORMATION, BEVERLY HILLS, DEPT. 207 JUDGE MICHAEL E. WHITAKER Courtroom Telephone: 310-281-2427 Courtroom Hours: 8:30-12, 1:30-4:30 Judicial Assistant: Joyia Young Courtroom Assistant: Portia Booker Welcome to Department 207. The Court appreciates all attorneys and parties taking the time to read and comply with the policies and procedures set forth

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: September 29, 2026benchpath-ca-t3-los-angeles-2026-09-29

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-29 (California T3 Los Angeles build 2026-09-29) from BenchPath custody ca/t3/ca-los-angeles/dept/CourtroomInformation_BH_207.pdf (640676 bytes, sha256 fc916f9182df6701262b345f1f24fefba4d277098549beb2c524b31cab703d42; 25 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow, drawn-glyph reading): page numbers, pleading line numbers and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the sheet's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only), proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) and proof 3 (same characters as the glyphs drawn on the page) all pass. The two-column pleading caption of the trial orders it reproduces is set left cell, then right cell (the “)” column and the box's rule left out). Running footers or headers printed on only some pages, or at shifting heights, are named for this sheet and left out as page marks. A paragraph struck through on the sheet is set inside a bracketed note, never as live text. Attached to Judge Michael E. Whitaker: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Michael E. Whitaker in Department 207 of the Beverly Hills Courthouse.