3 verbatim requirements on discovery.
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Unlock free →2. A Notice of Readiness for Trial should be e-filed and accepted by the Clerk’s Office and then chambers should be contacted to coordinate the trial dates. This matter should not be set for a hearing on the UMC docket. Please do not notice your case for trial until discovery is completed and you have attended mediation. The parties/counsel must confer to coordinate potential dates for trial; length of trial; number of witnesses, etc.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: de997c79d5de7637534940fa6a11a61054bdcd8c0bda683e664e857f3804cb1b. 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).