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Department 613's procedures: motion hearing dates reserved by email with the clerk before filing; case management and informal discovery conferences on Tuesdays and Thursdays, complex and dispositive motions on Wednesdays and a settlement calendar on alternate Fridays; e-mail to Department613ComplexLit@sftc.org copied to all counsel, for administration only; two paper courtesy copies of e-filed documents (with exhibit tabs) and proposed orders by email in Word and PDF; hearings in person or by Zoom (no Court Call), the Zoom waiting room 5 minutes before (15 minutes in JCCP cases and cases with more than five attorneys) and one joint e-mail by 4 p.m. the court day before; stipulated orders and protective orders; motions to seal noticed not less than fourteen days before the substantive motion; e-filing; continuances; vacated hearings; case management conferences and statements; individual settlements in putative class and PAGA actions; motions for approval of settlements; discovery; ex parte applications; tentative rulings; Judicial Council Coordination Proceedings; motions to be relieved as counsel; and discovery disputes during depositions.
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Superior Court of California County of San Francisco Department 613 — Judge Jeffrey S. Ross Complex Litigation Procedures Department 613 Staff: • Attorneys: Megan Beshai (Staff Attorney); Ananya Raghavan (Legal Research Attorney) • Dept. 613 E-mail: Department613ComplexLit@sftc.org • Clerk Phone: 415-551-3840 • Please review the procedures below before contacting the clerk. Communications with the
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 San Francisco build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-francisco/docs/general/complexprocedures_dept613-september-1-2026-final.pdf (245753 bytes, sha256 6dc77af19e8bb9a5f7ea03ea5f3e709e319c34fb1d560e80012f79924d72d21b; 7 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. Documented settings (whitespace-only or same-character changes; the proofs hold): the one soft hyphen, printed as the hyphen of “cross-” at a line end, read as a hyphen; seven “o” sub-bullets set on their own lines and four breaks the reflow made inside sentences rejoined (whitespace fixes). Attached to Judge Jeffrey S. Ross: the card is Department 613's, where the court's Judicial Assignment page (effective May 18, 2026) seats Judge Jeffrey S. Ross. Review note: Published as printed: “Goldman Sach Groups” (the case Department 304's procedures cite as Goldman Sachs Grp.). The Judicial Assignments page (effective May 18, 2026) lists Department 613 as Complex Litigation/ CEQA; the CEQA Department page puts CEQA in Department 606 (a review task on the CEQA Department card).
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