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1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
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Unlock free →If the case is adversarial in nature and requires the setting of a final hearing or trial. The parties seeking to set the matter for Final Hearing/Trial must file a Notice of Readiness for Trial. Upon filing, a courtesy copy shall be sent to the Judicial Assistant, via email, along with any known notices of unavailability previously filed and all parties must be cc’d on this correspondence. The Court upon receiving the Notice shall set the matter for Pre-Trial Conference or Calendar Call. At the Pretrial Conference or Calendar Call the parties should be prepared to address the length of time the final hearing requires, the number of witnesses to be called, the outstanding discovery, and any pending Motions. The parties should have conferred prior to the Pretrial Conference or Calendar Call to ensure efficiency.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 7a99f52d10ef8d25a72725ed57f39cce6d936105b85362842fd50330d93a8cc9. 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).