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Los Angeles County Superior Court — Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Department 316 (Judge Andrew Esbenshade): Courtroom Information

High confidence· verified September 29, 2026Judge PreferencesCourtroom Information, Stanley Mosk Courthouse, Department 316, 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/LAM/courtrooms/316/documents, fetched 2026-09-29.

Summary

Department 316's online courtroom information (Stanley Mosk 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 disputes (informal discovery conferences at 11:00 a.m., Monday through Friday); 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.).

Applies to

California > Second Appellate District > Los Angeles County > Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles > Stanley Mosk Courthouse > Department 316

Source of truth

STANLEY MOSK COURTHOUSE DEPARTMENT 316 ONLINE COURTROOM INFORMATION JUDGE ANDREW ESBENSHADE (213) 633-0526 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: —
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_LAM_316.pdf (246701 bytes, sha256 ed0107f7a0aa3217966964445b88b5a114f64396d0b0bf370dc400d906411ffc; 7 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 Andrew Esbenshade: the sheet names the judicial officer, and the court's Courtroom Information application and Judicial Officer Search both place Judge Andrew Esbenshade in Department 316 of the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.