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1 verbatim requirement on discovery disputes in Derek A. Lewis's division.
Sixteenth Judicial Circuit (Monroe County — the Florida Keys), Derek A. Lewis'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. (an example is available on this page). At least one of the attempts to confer, MUST be made by telephone call.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: aad5589158f9677b7baf02d484672fb43cab7b051d8dbddc044481c3fe8ff749. 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).