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25 verbatim requirements from Hirsch, Milton's own page on the circuit's site.
Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from Hirsch, Milton's page, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • Any movant scheduling and noticing a hearing (Motion Calendar and Special Set) before this Court must meet and confer with opposing counsel in order to attempt to resolve any and all issues possible. • If you are seeking a unilateral hearing, Court approval is required. • Please be sure to document and include your attempts to confer in your Notice of Hearing if you do not receive a response. • Do not file or deliver original loan documents until Judge Hirsch specifically instructs you to do so. • If your case is resolved through settlement, a Notice of Settlement must be filed with the Clerk’s Office. • In addition, a copy must be emailed to izavala@jud11.flcourts.org to ensure the matter is removed from the trial docket. • Input Case Number The Court will review the Emergency Motion and communicate within 24 hours. • To cancel a hearing, the party who placed the matter on calendar must cancel the hearing through court map if it is on motion calendar. • If the matter is special set, then a notice of cancellation must be filed with the clerk's office and then emailed to the judicial assistant to be removed. • In order for a second motion to be heard on the case by either side, the moving party must schedule a separate event in courtMAP. • Upon the completion of briefing, counsel shall submit the Motion to Dismiss, together with all responses, replies, memoranda of law, and supporting authority, via email to izavala@jud11.flcourts.org, with all relevant parties copied on the correspondence. • The essence of a motion in limine is that adverse counsel is likely to offer at trial some particular item of evidence; that the rules of evidence and of civil procedure do not expressly address the admissibility or not of that evidence; that when the evidence is actually offered it will be found inadmissible; but that an after-the-fact objection to the evidence (and a judicial instruction to the jury to ignore the evidence) will be inefficacious; and therefore a pretrial ruling excluding the evidence is required. • The likelihood that a given trial will feature something for which the rules have made no provision, and that therefore must be hashed out by a pretrial motion in limine, is slight. • Counsel for the moving party shall file the Notice of Cancellation with the Clerk of Court and proceed to cancel the court event on courtMAP. • You do not need to call Chambers to cancel Motion Calendar hearings. • Thus attorneys may not ask about a law making it a crime to wear a red necktie on Tuesday. • Attorneys may not ask about a pilot announcing that he thinks he can land the plane in the fog at O'Hare. • Attorneys may not ask about the "elements" of a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, or about what laws a venireman would enact if he were king of his own island. • Notices for Trial must be uploaded as a Supporting Document through courtMAP when requesting a trial date. • NOTICES FOR TRIAL MUST BE E-FILED AND SUBMITTED BY COURTMAP (UNDER SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS) WHEN SELECTING A TRIAL PERIOD. • March 25th, 2026 Please file all proposed Orders via courtMAP under "Proposed Orders" or "Agreed Orders." Proposed Orders are only accepted via courtMAP, which must be submitted in Word format on the courtMAP pre-generated blank order form, and accompanied with a Motion and all supporting documents. • If a hearing is scheduled, do not submit a Proposed Order prior to the hearing unless the parties have resolved the motion and are submitting an Agreed Order. • The moving party must coordinate the hearing date and time with opposing counsel based on the Court’s availability as listed on courtMAP. • When selecting the proposed hearing date, the moving party shall upload a copy of the filed Motion as Supporting Documents for the Court’s approval. • 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.
Any movant scheduling and noticing a hearing (Motion Calendar and Special Set) before this Court must meet and confer with opposing counsel in order to attempt to resolve any and all issues possible.
Reviewer note: Page sha256: a5a6a42a1a83ba3920e19d945f6f402ae0c3b05841c75547d52fab14ebadc0b0. 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.