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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Santa Monica Courthouse, Department P (Judge David W. Swift): Courtroom Information (DATE: December 22, 2025)

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

Summary

Department P's courtroom information (Santa Monica Courthouse): filings (the First Amended General Order re Mandatory Electronic Filing for Civil dated May 3, 2019); ex parte applications (Monday through Thursday at 8:30 a.m., Friday at 9:00 a.m.); case management conferences; continuances; remote appearances through LACourtConnect; motions; discovery motions; service of papers; final status conferences (typically Fridays, ten days before a Monday trial date); trial; and sanctions - with the department's final status conference and trial documents (operative pleadings first; motions in limine and trial motions; court reporters; 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 responses: an informal discovery conference first (three agreed dates, a Monday or 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 P

Source of truth

LOS ANGELES SUPERIOR COURT COURTROOM INFORMATION, SANTA MONICA, DEPT. P JUDGE DAVID W. SWIFT Courtroom Telephone: 310-255-1877 Courtroom Hours: 8:30-12; 1:30-4:30 Judicial Assistant: Katrina House Courtroom Assistant: FILINGS: All parties are to comply with the First Amended General Order re Mandatory Electronic Filing for Civil dated May 3, 2019. Other than for Motions in Limine (discussed below)

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles — Courtroom Information (courtroom information sheets)
Source health: Healthy · checked September 29, 2026
Effective date: December 22, 2025
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_P.pdf (279733 bytes, sha256 eaffc5e76335df0e7414b1916c67d97d93c941e900bf8650c91d23a5f61c531e; 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. Attached to Judge David W. Swift: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge David W. Swift in Department P of the Santa Monica Courthouse.