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1 verbatim requirement on discovery disputes in Bonnie J. Helms's division.
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit (Monroe County — the Florida Keys), Bonnie J. Helms's division only. Divisional practices change without notice; the judge's own published page controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
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Unlock free →Florida Rule of Civil Procedure. 1.202 requires a “Meet and Confer” on all non-dispositive motions PRIOR to the motion being filed. A Certificate of Conferral is to be attached to the motion. At least one of the attempts to confer, MUST be made by telephone call.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: bb66ef898e537b2a345bc2e8e012883fd9175d18c371590d6daf4aa8ef11f25e. Corpus categories folded into this record: discovery/meet and confer. Published during the completeness pass — the 2026-07-24 arbitration verified 67 verbatim requirements across this bench but published only 6 rules.
Every party setting a hearing in Division AO must first confer in a good-faith effort to resolve the matter, and every hearing notice must include a certificate of that conferral. The division instructions state that conferral requires counsel to actually talk.
Under the 2025 case-management amendments, a movant must confer with the opposing party in a good-faith effort to resolve a nondispositive motion before filing it, and must include a certificate of conferral.
CV-E layers a second conferral on top of Rule 1.202: certify conferral before filing the motion (Exhibit A) and again before scheduling it for hearing (Exhibit B).