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San Mateo County Superior Court — Department 11 (Judge David A. Silberman) Case Management Order No. 1 for Complex Cases

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 11 (Judge David A. Silberman) Case Management Order No. 1 for Complex Cases, Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo; posted on the court's Department Info of Judge David A. Silberman page (https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/department-info-judge-david-silberman) at https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/dept11_cmc_order_for_complex_cases.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 11's Case Management Order No. 1 for complex cases: general matters (familiarity with the Local Rules, the California Rules of Court (CRC) and the Deskbook on the Management of Complex Civil Litigation; the California Attorney Guidelines of Civility and Professionalism; continuances discouraged; notice of settlement); filings and correspondence (e-filing and electronic service; copies to complexcivil@sanmateocourt.org; e-mail correspondence to the department); case management conferences, conducted by the Court rather than the Civil Commissioner, with an e-mail service list and a joint statement in place of Judicial Council Form CM-110; ex parte applications; discovery (meet and confer in person or by videoconference; informal discovery conferences); law and motion (briefing schedules, courtesy copies, proposed orders under rule 3.1312, motions to seal, discovery motions without the separate statement of rule 3.1345); settlement conferences and mediations; and miscellaneous provisions (recording prohibited; court reporters).

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > San Mateo County > Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo > Department 11

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN MATEO NAME, Plaintiff, vs NAME(S), and DOES 1-___, inclusive, Defendants. Case No. ________ CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER NO. 1 Assigned for All Purposes to Hon. David A. Silberman, Dept. 11 Action Filed: _______ Trial Date: _______ Pursuant to the order assigning this case – which had been previously designated as complex – for all purposes to Judge

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

Reviewer note: Composed 2026-10-08 (California T4 San Mateo build 2026-10-08) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-mateo/docs/civil/dept11_cmc_order_for_complex_cases.pdf (288580 bytes, sha256 8e6e013a692efa9cdd5945583d677c8683ad5f4a609ffa97b12aa47f58aa2ed4; 11 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 running footer (a rule of underscores, “Complex CMO No. 1”, “- n -”) removed; “(2) submit a concise outline”, read as a list item at a line start, rejoined to its sentence (a whitespace fix); the pleading caption set cell by cell (a same-character fix), the court's two centred lines set on two lines. Attached to Judge David A. Silberman: the card is Department 11's, where the court's Directory of Judges (effective August 3, 2026) seats Judge David A. Silberman.