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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Santa Monica Courthouse, Department N (Judge Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld): Courtroom Information (DATE: March 2, 2023)

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Santa Monica Courthouse, Department N, 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/SM/courtrooms/N/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department N's courtroom information and trial preparation order (Santa Monica Courthouse): filings (the General Order re Mandatory Electronic Filing for Civil dated November 5, 2018; courtesy copies); ex parte applications (Monday through Thursday at 8:30 a.m., Friday at 9:00 a.m.); telephonic appearances through LACourtConnect (check in by 8:15 a.m.); motions (Tuesday through Thursday at 8:30 a.m. and Friday at 9:00 a.m.; hearing dates reserved on the Court Reservation System); and trials - the trial documents (operative pleadings first), motions in limine and trial motions, stipulations, conduct of counsel and parties, court reporters, jury selection, the lectern and approaching witnesses, objections, witnesses, reading discovery responses and deposition transcripts, reference to evidence, visual aids at opening statement, exhibits, highly prejudicial evidence and jury instructions - and the department's order on motions to compel further responses: an informal discovery conference before any such motion is heard (three agreed dates, a Wednesday or Thursday; meeting and conferring; a joint brief of less than five pages two court days before).

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California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Santa Monica Courthouse > Department N

Source of truth

COURTROOM INFORMATION AND TRIAL PREPARATION ORDER HON. LISA SEPE-WIESENFELD DEPARTMENTN LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT GENERAL COURTROOM INFORMATION FILINGS: All parties are to comply with the General Order re Mandatory Electronic Filing for Civil dated November 5, 2018. Courtesy copies shall be provided pursuant to the First Amended General Order dated May 3, 2019. Printed Courtesy Copies are require

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: March 2, 2023
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_SM_N.pdf (319439 bytes, sha256 ac139ccbeead381f2cb3631f7ab48f194c1027b9272fc5102f7fece43d26a008; 10 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. Glyph codes the file maps wrongly are set as printed: “呸” (U+5478) as “�” (U+FFFD). Attached to Judge Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Lisa K. Sepe-Wiesenfeld in Department N of the Santa Monica Courthouse.