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Official rule; awaiting reverification against the current source text. Verify with the clerk, judicial assistant, or official court website before relying on it.
3 summarised requirements on judge preferences.
Fourth Judicial Circuit — CIRCUIT-WIDE 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. • Multiple proposed orders must be submitted as separate uploads; use the unique case number and do not embed exhibits or images in the Word order. • A Trial Set Memorandum must be submitted no later than fourteen days before the case-management conference to avoid the conference. • Motions or objections directed to pleadings must be scheduled within sixty days after filing or may be treated as abandoned or denied.
Multiple proposed orders must be submitted as separate uploads; use the unique case number and do not embed exhibits or images in the Word order.
Reviewer note: Source sha256: . Corpus categories: PROPOSED_ORDER_SEPARATE_UPLOADS, TRIAL_SET_MEMORANDUM, MOTION_SCHEDULING. Quote status as recorded by the researcher: PARAPHRASE_FROM_OBSERVED_SOURCE. PARAPHRASE — published at medium confidence because the corpus itself marks this text as a summary, not a quotation. Published during the 2026-07-24 completeness pass.
Judge Bell caps motions and responses at 5 pages for UMC hearings and 12 pages for special-set hearings.
Judge Alijewicz requires every motion for attorney's fees and/or costs to attach a document detailing time records — no records, no fee award.
Judge Corlew bars informal contact: every communication with the Court must be in writing, filed with the Clerk, with copies furnished to all parties — and no calls to the JA to schedule or cancel UMC.