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35 verbatim requirements from Ariana Fajardo Orshan's own page on the circuit's site.
Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from Ariana Fajardo Orshan's page, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • If the parties do not meet and confer, the motion shall be rescheduled, and the parties shall be forced to attend in-person motion calendars. • MUST be delivered to the Clerk’s office prior to hearing. • If the Court signs the order., the parties MUST contact the Judicial Assistant via E-mail to obtain a new trial order. • An order continuing a trial WILL NOT automatically generate a new trial date. 4-Motions for Reconsideration/Rehearing: are NOT to be set for hearing, these motions must be E-Filed and E-mailed to the Judicial Assistant for the Judge’s review. 5-Evidentiary Hearings: are NOT to be set on the motion calendar, they must be special set (Please see the courts instructions on Special Sets) 6- CONFLICTS IN SCHEDULING ORDERS: • When the Court issues a CMO and then a trial order, the trial order deadlines shall control. • Trial reset orders do not impact the original trial order deadlines. • Any motions to extend deadlines must be agreed to or set on motion calendar. • Competing orders shall be submitted under the proposed order tab on Courtmap. • The tile of the order must begin with ''PROPOSED order on ... " This title will prompt the Court to look for the competing order. • Failure to properly label your order may result in multiple orders being entered and unnecessary delays in your case. 9- ARE YOU MISSING AN ORDER? If you have not received an order on a hearing within 30 days of submitting the ''Proposed Order'' Please E-mail the Judicial Assistant. • Emergency motions must first be e-filed and then submitted under the “emergency motion” tab on courtMAP. • MUST be delivered to the Clerk’s office prior to final hearing. • All motions and notices of hearings must be e-filed and uploaded to courtMAP at least 7 business days before the scheduled hearing. • Hearings shall be “coordinated” with all counsel and unrepresented parties. “Coordinated” means that the moving party offers a date upon service of the motion and all others respond within one (1) business day with agreement to the offered date or an alternate date(s) that is/are within a week of the offered date and is on a date that the Court holds Motion Calendar. • The movant MUST e-file the notice of hearing via the e-portal system. e- Motions to Dismiss: • When setting a Motion to Dismiss for hearing, you MUST upload the Motion and the Complaint as supporting documents to the Courtmap hearing date. • Motions to dismiss MUST be set for hearing within 45 days of being filed. • Failure to set the Motion to Dismiss for hearing shall be deemed waived and the motion will be stricken by the Court and a default will be entered. f. • The filed motion(s) and all documents in support must be attached when the hearing is scheduled. • You must still prepare, file, and serve a Notice of Hearing. • Unless otherwise instructed by the Court or as required by an applicable rule of Court, any opposition to a filed Motion shall be filed, served, uploaded to CourtMap and emailed to the Court no later than seven (7) business days prior to the date of the hearing, absent which the relief requested in the Motion may be granted without oral argument. • Motions for Summary Judgment shall be set for hearing on the Courts special set calendar. • DO NOT Submit Hard Copies or Binders to Chambers, unless instructed by the Judge. • Motion and all supporting documents, stipulation, and a letter of explanation MUST be submitted. • Before submitting a proposed order, the parties MUST meet and confer regarding the language in the order. • Prevailing party shall submit a Proposed/Agreed Order by no later than 5:00PM of the day of the hearing. • When receiving a "REJECTED ORDER" from the Judge, please follow the instructions given by the Judge and resubmit accordingly. **If a Proposed Order or Agreed Order HAS BEEN SUBMITTED DO NOT Submit it again, to avoid duplicate Orders.** • You must submit the completed Special Set Hearing Request Form (Available in the hearing documents section - ALL hearing requests require a special set request form), the motion(s), exhibits, affidavits, transcripts, legal authority, etc., via courtMAP. • Evidentiary hearings MUST be specially set, DO NOT set an evidentiary matter on the Courts Motion Calendar. • Exhibits MUST be uploaded to the eFiling Portal at least five (5) days before the hearing (instructions on how to submit evidence is available in the hearing documents section). • Exhibits for in-person evidentiary hearings ARE NOT to be uploaded or submitted to the eFiling Portal, the parties MUST bring hard copies of all exhibits to Court. • Responses and any other Supporting Documents must be timely uploaded via courtMAP to the appropriately scheduled hearing no later than seven (7) business days prior to the hearing date. • Prepare the proposed Notice of Cancellation (NOC), specifying the reason for the cancellation, and upload it as a separate submission to the courtMAP hearing event; then you MUST E-mail a copy of the notice to the Judicial Assistant including all parties. • If the hearing is cancelled, the NOC must be filed with the Clerk's Office. • Do NOT e-file the notice of cancellation until after the Court has reviewed and approved the cancellation.
If the parties do not meet and confer, the motion shall be rescheduled, and the parties shall be forced to attend in-person motion calendars.
Reviewer note: Page sha256: 35a52d1151af80b90abd0a0ba1d770d8f182df6986c1ce715360e2684f9b2e18. Requirements published on the judge's own page; navigation stripped before extraction.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.