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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Santa Monica Courthouse, Department O (Judge Bradley S. Phillips): Courtroom Information (DATE: March 20, 2026)

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

Summary

Department O's online courtroom information (Santa Monica Courthouse): civility (the Guidelines for Civility in Litigation); case management conferences (8:30 a.m.); trial setting conferences; filings; ex parte applications (8:30 a.m., Monday through Friday); discovery motions; less experienced attorneys; interpreters; court reporters; remote appearances; law and motion and tentative rulings - with the department's Final Status Conference and Trial Preparation Order (meeting and conferring before the conference; the documents for jury trials, court trials and all trials; trials usually set Mondays at 9:30 a.m.; impeachment exhibits; court reporters and settled statements; interpreters; conduct of counsel and parties, jury selection, the lectern and approaching witnesses, objections, stipulations, witnesses, reference to evidence, visual aids at opening statement, exhibits, highly prejudicial evidence and jury instructions) and its standing order re motions to compel further discovery: an informal discovery conference first (three agreed dates, a Friday at 10:00 a.m.; a joint brief of no more than five pages).

Applies to

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

Source of truth

SANTA MONICA COURTHOUSE DEPARTMENT O ONLINE COURTROOM INFORMATION JUDGE BRADLEY S. PHILLIPS (310) 255-1866 CIVILITY: The court places a high value on civility, courtesy, and professionalism in the practice of law and the judicial process. The court expects all attorneys and parties to treat each other, witnesses, jurors, court personnel, the Court, and others with the highest level of courtesy bot

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 20, 2026
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_O.pdf (322636 bytes, sha256 837513812c9b70246da803ec30eb3240f994f89c0f40369dcb958962078d9426; 11 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. Attached to Judge Bradley S. Phillips: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Bradley S. Phillips in Department O of the Santa Monica Courthouse.