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6 verbatim mandatory provisions from 06-12-b.
Eighteenth Judicial Circuit. Check the order's own effective and rescission dates before relying on it. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the order's own text layer, harvested 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. Only sentences containing mandatory language (shall, must, may not, no later than, within N) are reproduced — the full document is in custody and is the controlling text. • ARBITRATION – QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT OF ARBITRATORS IN CIVIL CASES ______________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, Chapter 44, Florida Statutes, permits a presiding circuit or county judge to refer civil cases to arbitration without the consent of the parties; and WHEREAS, Rule 1.810(a), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure requires the Chief Judge or his designee to maintain a list of qualified persons who have agreed to serve within the circuit as arbitrators under Section 44.103, Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, Rule 11.130, Florida Rules of Court requires that arbitrators shall serve at the pleasure of the Chief Judge; and WHEREAS, the Court finds that it is necessary to establish a set for specific qualifications for arbitrators in order for their names to appear on the circuit list of qualified arbitrators maintained in accordance with Administrative Order 05-23-B of this Court. • A person named on the list of persons who are qualified to serve as arbitrators as required by Paragraph 1 of Administrative Order 05-23-B shall have the following qualifications: • (a) A member in good standing of the Florida Bar who has been a member of the Florida Bar for at least five (5) years; and (b) Has attended four hours of training in an arbitrator training program approved by the Supreme Court of Florida; and (c) Meets the requirements of one of the following paragraphs: -- 1 of 2 -- 2 (1) Has participated as counsel in a minimum of (3) three civil cases in which a jury trial was commenced by the selection of a jury and presentation of testimony; and has served as lead counsel in at least one of those cases; or (2) Has participated as lead counsel in a minimum of six (6) civil cases in which a jury trial was demanded and were settled prior to trial as the result of formal mediation or arbitration proceedings; or (3) Is certified as a mediator by the Florida Supreme Court and has mediated or arbitrated to complete settlement at least six (6) civil cases in which a jury trial was demanded by the parties; or (4) Is a retired justice or retired appellate or circuit judge within the meaning of “retired” as defined in Section 25.073(1), Florida Statutes. 2. • The Administrative Judge of Civil Division shall prepare an application form for persons who wish to apply to serve as arbitrators under Chapter 44, Florida Statutes and Administrative Order 05-23-B. • The said application form shall require that the applicant demonstrate compliance with the requirements of this order, and shall additionally include a requirement that applicant provide a brief description of the applicant’s legal experience. 3. • Each trial judge shall have the discretion to appoint an arbitrator to a given type of case (e.g., personal injury, medical malpractice, commercial litigation, or other civil case) which is consistent with the arbitrator’s prior experience.
ARBITRATION – QUALIFICATIONS FOR APPOINTMENT OF ARBITRATORS IN CIVIL CASES ______________________________________________________________________ WHEREAS, Chapter 44, Florida Statutes, permits a presiding circuit or county judge to refer civil cases to arbitration without the consent of the parties; and WHEREAS, Rule 1.810(a), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure requires the Chief Judge or his designee to maintain a list of qualified persons who have agreed to serve within the circuit as arbitrators under Section 44.103, Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, Rule 11.130, Florida Rules of Court requires that arbitrators shall serve at the pleasure of the Chief Judge; and WHEREAS, the Court finds that it is necessary to establish a set for specific qualifications for arbitrators in order for their names to appear on the circuit list of qualified arbitrators maintained in accordance with Administrati
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 660b94a3de132f64f04ec6479d8555e2fe190ad5606e6c0536b5117749beb425 (90798 bytes). BenchPath harvested this circuit itself because no research corpus existed for it. Extraction is conservative: mandatory-language sentences only, so this rule is a faithful subset of the order, never a summary of it.
Judge Shull requires ALL motions set for special-set hearing to go to mediation before the hearing is held.
Judge Burkhart will not schedule a temporary-relief hearing until mediation has been held ON the temporary relief sought — mediation first, hearing second.
Judge Sharrit refers ALL cases to mediation (exceptions only by leave) and openly encourages Special Magistrates under Rule 1.490(b) to beat the hearing-time bottleneck.