PTCs In Person by TRIAL Counsel; Voluminous Materials on a… — Duval County, FL · BenchPath

PTCs In Person by TRIAL Counsel; Voluminous Materials on a Flash Drive — Division CV-H

Medium — verify before relying· verified July 5, 2026Remote / Zoom Hearings4th Jud. Cir., Div. CV-H Civil Policies & Procedures (rev. June 26, 2025)

Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.

Summary

Judge Feltel requires trial counsel personally at pre-trial conferences ("A CRITICAL STAGE"), holds all 30-minute-plus hearings in person, and has retired the binder era: courtesy materials 5 days ahead electronically, voluminous sets on a flash drive.

Applies to

Florida > Fourth Judicial Circuit > Duval County > Circuit Civil Division CV-H (Judge G. L. Feltel, Jr.)

Source of truth

"PRETRIAL CONFERENCES REPRESENT A CRITICAL STAGE OF THE CASE AND IN PERSON ATTENDANCE BY TRIAL COUNSEL IS REQUIRED." / "All hearings of 30 minutes or more, or for any critical stage of the case, are to occur in-person." / "(if voluminous, please place on a flash drive and deliver to the Court). The Court used to accept large binders of hard copies of the parties' materials. Those days are gone."

Official source: Div. CV-H Civil Policies & Procedures (Judge Feltel) — PDF
Source health: Healthy · checked October 22, 2026
Effective date: —
Last verified: July 5, 2026Live fetch + sha256 of official PDF — 2026-07-05

Reviewer note: Verified against the live official source on 2026-07-05. 30-day recheck scheduled. Confidence set to medium 2026-09-08 (H3 re-verification): the live official document no longer carries this text verbatim — see the open change_detected task on its source. The official page changed after this rule's verification: on 2026-10-13 the recorded source passage no longer appeared on https://www.jud4.org/getContentAsset/3e36c8a1-d8a7-4d20-afd7-35ab4d8ed37b/135b97c9-84fa-4e82-b956-0fbccec4aa1f/Updated-Civil-Policies-and-Procedures-CV-H-070225.pdf?language=en (automated verbatim check, window match 49%). Confidence lowered to medium until the rule is re-read against the current text.

Circuit Civil

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