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4 verbatim requirements on discovery.
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Unlock free →As of October 31, 2025, discovery motions (except motion to compel financial affidavits or mandatory disclosures) will no longer be heard on UMC and must be specially set pursuant to Division Procedures. Going forward, all discovery hearings shall be held IN-PERSON. Motions shall be limited to 5-minute increments.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 5af1ac7cc0cdea28905978ab45cb7cb44c046615e8248022876a53a893ca5bce. Corpus categories: DISCOVERY. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
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).