9 verbatim requirements from Silver, Stephanie's own page on the circuit's site.
Eleventh Judicial Circuit (Miami-Dade). Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from Silver, Stephanie's page, harvested 2026-08-02; whitespace normalised only. • Any hearings (of any type or duration), trials, and/or Small Claims pre-trials currently set for in-person shall remain in-person unless the division judge decides to move a scheduled event to Zoom and is able to notify the parties with the Zoom instructions without requiring the Clerk’s office to mail or re-issue a new notice. • ***If you email the Judicial Assistant, you must copy all counsel of record in the same email.*** • Notices of cancellation i ncluding a reason(s) for cancellation shall be efiled and emailed to Judicial Assistant a week prior to the scheduled hearing. • All motions to continue trial or strike trial dates, even if agreed, must be set on calendar . • Motions for continuance must indicate whether it is the fi rst request for continuance. • If it is not, the number and date of prior continuance(s) must be included in the motion. • Cancellations are NOT ALLOWED within 48 hours before the hearing , unless a Motion for Continuance has been filed and a Proposed Order has been uploaded to courtMAP and approved, OR the parties have reached an agreement and an agreed order has been furnished to courtMAP prior to the hearing, OR a Voluntary Dismissal is being filed. • All notices of cancellation must have the reason and if the parties wish to continue the hearing within 5 days, they must file a Motion to Continue. • Hearings set within one week of scheduled date, must have court permission to cancel, unless the matter is resolved.
Any hearings (of any type or duration), trials, and/or Small Claims pre-trials currently set for in-person shall remain in-person unless the division judge decides to move a scheduled event to Zoom and is able to notify the parties with the Zoom instructions without requiring the Clerk’s office to mail or re-issue a new notice.
Reviewer note: Page sha256: fa575ce5d89e8bb27e3af5260de75d567fa00cac3a6e977d45a8d742ac90d203. 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.