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26 verbatim mandatory provisions from Rule 3.
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
• The governing administrative order specifies classes of . "mandatory" cases which must be assigned to Business Court. • A plaintiff filing a mandatory case must complete and electronically file, along with the complaint, the form entitled "Civil Cover Sheet and Addendum for Business Court Case" located at: http://www.fljud13.org/Forms.aspx. The Clerk will then assign the case to Business Court Division "L." • The Business Court judge wiJl then make ~ determination and, If he or she finds transfer appropriate, the Business Courtjudge wj]l enter the order oftran$fer. 3.6. .Notification of Settlement , When uuy causepending in BusinessCourt is settled, all attorneys or unrepresentedparties of record mu.st notify the Business Court judge or the judge's designee within 24 hours of the settlementand must advise the court of the party who will prepare and present thejudgment; dismissal or. stipulation of dismissal and when such filings will be presented. 3.7. • Before filing any motion, the moving party must confer in person or telephonically with counsel for the opposing party in a good faith effort to resolve the issues raised by the motion and must file with the motion a statement certifying that the moving party has conferred with opposing counsel and that counsel have been unable to agree on the resolution of the motion. Counsel must respond promptly to efforts by opposing counsel who wish to confer to resolve motions prior their filing. Prior to filing a motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action, counsel must notify opposing counsel in writing of the intention to file a motion to dismiss and must identify the reason(s) counsel will allege that the complaint fails to state a cause of action. If requested, counsel will stipulate to the filing of an amended complaint in lieu of filing the motion. • No conference is required prior to the filing of a motionfor injunc_tive relief without notice, for summaryjudgment, or to permit maintenance of a class action. 3.8. • All substantive motions must be accompaniedby a memorandumof law, which must not exceed 25 pages in length. • A memorandumin opposition may be filed within 10 days thereafter and must not exceed 25 pages in length. • A reply memorandum may be filed within 5 days following the filing of a memorandum in opposition, which must not exceed 5 pages in length and must address only those matters raised in the memoranda in opposition. • Promptly after filing a motion, if the motion is contested.and the hearing is not waived, the moving party must initiate the scheduling of a hearing. • The parties must confer and, if possible, set the motion for hearing at a mutually agreeable time at least 5 business days after the time has expired for the filing of a reply memorandum. If the parties are unable to agree on a hearing date, they must promptly advise the court and the court will set the hearing. • A motion requiring a hearing under this subdivisionmay be deemed abandonedand deniedwithout prejudice if a notice ofhearin~ on the motion is not filed within 45 days of its filing. 3.11. • Within 60 days following the service of a complaint in the Business Court Division or within 30 days followingthe transfer of a case to the Business Court Division, counsel for the respectiveparties must meet in.person or telephonicallyto prepare and thereafter file a Case Management Report. • The parties must cooperate in the scheduling of a case management conference, following which plaintiff's counsel must coordinate, schedule, and notice a case management conference at a time reasonably convenient to the parties. • The-parties must meet in person or by telephone to discuss and:preparea Case ManagementReport, which must be submitted to the court:no later than 5 days before the case managementconference. • The parties' Case ManagementReport must address those matters set fo_rthin rules 1.2.00(a) and 1.201 of the Florida Rules of Civil Procedureas well as the following: • (e) The time period after the close of discoverywithin which dispositive motions must be filed, briefed and argued and a tentative schedulefor such. activities; • The Handbook can be found on the website of the Trial Lawyers Section of The Florida Bar (http://www.flatls.org/). 3.17. Discovery – Experts. Discovery with respect to experts must be conducted within the discovery period established by the Case Management Order. At least 30 days before the deposition of any expert (or, if no deposition is required, within the time set by the court), the party who retained the expert must produce an expert report which discloses, at a minimum, the expert's opinions and the bases and facts underlying such opinions; the data or other information considered by the witness in forming the opinions; any exhibits to be used as a summary of or support for the opinions; the qualifications of the witness, including a list of publications authored by the witness within the preceding ten years; the compensation paid for the expert's work and expected costs for his or her testimony; and a listing of any other cases in which the witness has testified as an expert at trial or by deposition or affidavit within the preceding four years. • Motions seeking im exten$j()n- of.the discoveryperiod must be presentedprior to the expiration of the time within which discoveryis required to be completed.S.uch motions must-set forth good causejustifying the additionaltime or additional disc(}yeryand will only be granted upon a showing of goodcause. 3.19. • A party-must not file documentsunder seal withouthaving first obtained an order granting leave·of court to file documentsunderseal based upon a showing of particularizedneed·in accordance with Floridalaw. 3.20. • Mediation, The parties in all cases assigned to Business Court must be ordered to attend mediationto be conductedby a mediator who theparties agree upon or who the -court assigns. • On or before the date established in the Case Management Order, lead trial counsel for all parties and any self-represented parties must meet together in person for the purpose of preparing a Joint Final Pretrial Statement that is in substantial compliance with the Uniform Pretrial Conference Order applicable to civil cases in this circuit and strictly conforms to the requirements of this section. • The case must be fully ready"for trial when the Joint Final Pretrial Statementis filed. • Lead trial counsel for all parties, or the parties themselves if unrepresented, must sign the Joint Final Pretrial Statement. • Plaintiff's counsel has the primary responsibility for coordinating the meeting of lead trial counsel and self-represented parties and the filing of a Joint Final Pretrial Statement and related material. If a non-lawyer plaintiff is self-represented, then defense counsel must coordinate compliance. If counsel is unable to coordinate such compliance, counsel must timely notify the court by written motion or request for a status conference. • Lead trial counsel and local counsel for each party, together with all parties, must attend the final pretrial conference in person unless previously excused by the court. • Pretrial – Substance of Final Pretrial Conference. At the final pretrial conference, all counsel and parties must be prepared and authorized to address the following matters: the formulation and simplification of the issues; the elimination of frivolous claims or defenses; admitting facts and documents to avoid unnecessary proof; stipulating to the authenticity of documents; obtaining advance rulings from the court on the admissibility of evidence; settlement and the use of special procedures to assist in resolving the dispute; disposing of pending motions; establishing a reasonable limit on the time allowed for presenting evidence and argument; and such other matters as may facilitate the just, speedy, and inexpensive disposition of the actions.
The governing administrative order specifies classes of . "mandatory" cases which must be assigned to Business Court.
Reviewer note: Document sha256: dbb768c002b9540d28f875134d4ce088ccd35205bac3b5aba60e9081dafa43a2 (2115590 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it. Text layer cleaned 2026-09-08 (Phase 3a): page markers removed; parenthesis spacing restored; wording untouched. Text recomposed 2026-09-08 (Phase 3b): OCR/extractor artifacts corrected verbatim against the official print; wording unchanged. Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. [moved from the text 2026-09-14]
A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.
A 2013 standing order requiring attorneys to e-file family-law and civil documents (no paper filings accepted) as the court began compliance with the Supreme Court's e-filing mandate; criminal filing unchanged.