1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
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Unlock free →ALL parties utilizing the Court Management System (CMS) shall certify that they have consulted with all other parties in obtaining the hearing time in the Notice of Hearing pursuant to Local Rule 10A which governs the Uniform Motion Calendar, Special Set Hearings and Ex Parte Motions to Compel Discovery. Counsel in good faith shall secure the hearing time necessary to give all parties adequate time to argue the merits of the motion. If pleadings are not filed with the Clerk of Court and uploaded to CMS your hearing may be canceled.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 6d6141b1285910d436221ea1cfb926aa3151d3c238620a15a2e47acb417a243f. 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).