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San Mateo County Superior Court — Department 20 (Judge Michael L. Mau) Case Management Order No. 1 for Complex Cases

High confidence· verified October 8, 2026Judge PreferencesDepartment 20 (Judge Michael L. Mau) 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 Michael L. Mau page (https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/divisions/civil-division/civil-department-judges/department-info-judge-michael-l-mau) at https://sanmateo.courts.ca.gov/system/files/civil/cmc-order-complex-cases-d-20.pdf, fetched 2026-10-08.

Summary

Department 20'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); the plaintiff serves the order on all parties not yet appeared.

Applies to

California > First Appellate District > San Mateo County > Superior Court of California, County of San Mateo > Department 20

Source of truth

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SAN MATEO __________, Plaintiff, vs. __________, Defendants. Case No. __________ CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER NO. 1 (For Complex Cases Only) Assigned for All Purposes to Hon. Michael L. Mau, Dept. 20 Action Filed: ____________ Trial Date: none set Pursuant to the order assigning this complex case for all purposes to Judge Michael L. Mau in Department 20

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/cmc-order-complex-cases-d-20.pdf (362921 bytes, sha256 b0896843909143b8756f6fb3cc92931ae4d5496f2e0fe223577e280fde4e89f8; 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 removed; “(2) submit a concise outline” 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 and the caption's last line (“Trial Date: none set”), joined to the first paragraph across the page break, set apart. Attached to Judge Michael L. Mau: the card is Department 20's, where the court's Directory of Judges (effective August 3, 2026) seats Judge Michael L. Mau.