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1 verbatim requirement on discovery.
Second Judicial Circuit — Francis J. "Frank" Allman only. Practices change without notice; the court's own published text controls. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Verbatim from the published source, captured 2026-07-24; whitespace normalised only. No OCR was used. • Page 3 of 14 Revised 3/12/26 2.2 Certificate of Good Faith Conference Before filing any motion in any type of case, the movant must confer with opposing Counsel in an effort to resolve the issue(s) raised by the motion.
Page 3 of 14 Revised 3/12/26 2.2 Certificate of Good Faith Conference Before filing any motion in any type of case, the movant must confer with opposing Counsel in an effort to resolve the issue(s) raised by the motion.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: 2ab05b9dacdaf48f1b5cc88e3e981c2119162c68604ac35bed84ec0fd85194c3. Corpus categories: discovery_disputes. 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).