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San Francisco County Superior Court — Department 304 (Judge Ethan P. Schulman) Complex Litigation Procedures (updated January 11, 2024)

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 304 (Judge Ethan P. Schulman) Complex Litigation Procedures (updated January 11, 2024), Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco; posted on the court's Complex Civil Litigation page (https://sf.courts.ca.gov/divisions/civil-division/complex-civil-litigation) at https://sf.courts.ca.gov/system/files/general/dept-304-court-procedures.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 304's procedures: motion hearing dates reserved with the clerk before filing; e-mail to complexlit@sftc.org copied to all counsel, for administration only; continuances by stipulation or by email at least three court days before; vacated hearings; appearances in person, via Zoom (requested by joint email) or via CourtCall; discovery - deadlines for motions to compel vacated and suspended, no discovery motion without an informal discovery conference and the Court's authorization, a joint letter of no more than 5 pages at least three court days before the conference, and a motion within 10 court days after it; e-filing through File&ServeXpress; two hard copies of all e-filed documents; challenging confidentiality designations; sealing motions (the proposed redactions highlighted in yellow); tentative rulings emailed to counsel; no court reporters provided; and a joint case management conference statement filed with two copies no later than five court days before the conference.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > San Francisco County > Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco > Department 304

Source of truth

Superior Court of California County of San Francisco Department 304 – Judge Ethan P. Schulman Complex Litigation – Procedures Department 304 Staff: • Clerk: Felicia Green • Clerk Phone: 415-551-3729/5948 • Department 304 Email: complexlit@sftc.org • Staff Attorney: Kiara Canales • Legal Research Assistant: Lisa Cintron Communications with the Court and Reserving Hearing Dates: • All motion hearing

Official source: Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco — court website
Source health: Healthy · checked September 28, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: October 8, 2026benchpath-ca-t4-san-francisco-2026-10-08

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 San Francisco build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-francisco/docs/general/dept-304-court-procedures.pdf (197312 bytes, sha256 91fac4ecabcbe08b300baacebd26926cbe2525b92688789986d4767df28cb9ba; 4 pages) with the shared verbatim composer (v2 reflow): page marks and running headers or footers removed as chrome; lines reflowed into the document's paragraphs; proof 1 (whitespace-only) and proof 2 (same character multiset as the text layer minus chrome) pass. Attached to Judge Ethan P. Schulman: the card is Department 304's, where the court's Judicial Assignment page (effective May 18, 2026) seats Judge Ethan P. Schulman. Review note: The Judicial Assignments page (effective May 18, 2026) lists Department 304 as Complex Litigation / Asbestos; the Asbestos Department page and the May 4, 2026 notice put the asbestos calendars in Department 502 (a review task on the Asbestos Department card).