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7 verbatim mandatory provisions from 20-26-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. • Whereas, consistent with the said Administrative Orders, precautions are required with respect to large volume proceedings such as small claims pretrial conferences; • In each Small Claims case where the Plaintiff is represented by counsel and the Defendant is not represented by counsel, the parties shall participate in ODR prior to the Pretrial Conference date, as set forth in the language attached to the summons; 2. • Small Claims Pretrial Conferences may be continued to facilitate participation in ODR; and, 3 Small Claims summonses issued by the Clerk of Court shall attach a blank Non-Attorney Designation of Email Address form and a separate page, to be served with the summons, containing the following language: • ONLINE DISPUTE RESOLUTION Within 10 days of service of the summons, complete a Non-Attorney Designation of Email Address form and file it with the Clerk of Court. • All parties and attorneys are required to use Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) to attempt to resolve their dispute before the Pretrial Conference. • Parties and attorneys may participate in ODR using their smartphone, computer, or tablet at any time prior to the Pretrial Conference, including evenings and weekends. • If you have not reached a settlement agreement before the Pretrial Conference date, you are required to attend the Pretrial Conference as indicated on the summons.
Whereas, consistent with the said Administrative Orders, precautions are required with respect to large volume proceedings such as small claims pretrial conferences;
Reviewer note: Document sha256: 68ba094e7004c626ce19d6198add86978351513bdd8d20f8499de842e6a79ac3 (131614 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.
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).