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The Local Rules of Practice for the District Courts of Collin County (approved by all sixteen district judges May 6, 2026): conduct and decorum with the TRCP 18c recording ban (adoptions excepted), contact-information and vacation-letter duties, the anti-forum-shopping related-filings rule, electronic-filing and TRCP 21c sensitive-data/initials requirements, the district clerk's ministerial limits and the court-registry disbursement-order drafting rules with the 30-day waiver language, the conference requirement for setting hearings (two-attempt), continuances only by consent on a verified motion, ex parte relief mechanics with the 2-hour notice rule and its Title 4 / imminent-harm exceptions, the 20-minute-per-side family-law temporary-orders limit, motion-practice certificate-of-conference in three forms, the non-party government-employee subpoena conference/certificate rule, discovery-motion single-document rule, the form protective order, attorney-withdrawal mechanics, DWOP grounds, the 30-day final-judgment rule, and the §4.8 AI accuracy-verification requirement.
Texas > Collin County > all sixteen district courts (199th, 219th, 296th, 366th, 380th, 401st, 416th, 417th, 429th, 468th, 469th, 470th, 471st, 493rd, 494th — approved and signed by their judges May 6, 2026) — the district-courts' governing practice rulebook; the county courts at law carry their own §4.8-analog AI regime in CCL Standing Order No. 3
CONDUCT (1): every attorney reads and follows the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct and the Texas Lawyer's Creed, and self-represented litigants must behave with professional decorum — the rules apply equally to both. "No one may take photographs, broadcast, live stream, or make recordings (audio or video) in the courthouse, unless specifically authorized by written court order pursuant to Tex. R. Civ. P. 18c. Adoptions are exempt from this rule." CLERK AND FILING (2): attorneys and self-represented litigants keep a current mailing and email address on file — "If you do not open emails or mail sent to the address you provided, the court will still proceed as if you had received the communication"; a vacation letter reserves a reasonable number of days with no settings; "Forum shopping is prohibited. Once a case is filed in a court, other cases involving related claims or parties will also be filed in that court, even if non-suited or refiled"; attorneys e-file (self-represented may e-file or file directly), complying with TRCP 21; TRCP 21c sensitive-data redaction is mandatory — a document not requiring the sensitive-data notice "must not contain that notice," unredacted filings are resubmitted redacted, and pleadings use full first and last names (not initials) unless redaction is required. District-clerk employees give no legal advice and answer only five enumerated categories (answer filed; case existence/setting; motion setting; return of service and date; correct style on a supplied cause number). REGISTRY (2.7): disbursement orders must be clear and complete — ordering the clerk to issue the check, naming exactly who receives it and the amount, and the 30-day waiting period is waived only by specifically waiving it ("immediately," "instanter," "without delay" are insufficient); the period is automatically waived for criminal cash-bond disbursements and the OAG; defective orders draw no disbursement until cured. SETTINGS (3): the court may set a hearing on its own initiative at any time; otherwise parties confer in good faith on a date before requesting one, and may request a setting without agreement only after at least two contact attempts, stating the conferral efforts in the request. "A trial or hearing cannot be postponed or rescheduled without the consent of the court. Any motion for continuance must be verified." An attorney with a conflicting setting immediately notifies all courts. EX PARTE (3.4): no application is presented to a judge before filing and assignment, and the applicant discloses any related pending litigation; TRO/ex parte applicants must, "at least two hours before presenting the application," notify all other parties with copies of the application and proposed order — excepted only for Title 4 Family Code / CCP Article 7A protective orders, a reasonable basis of imminent irreparable harm with insufficient time, or a reasonable basis that notice would let the subject matter be compromised/removed/destroyed; an unavailable assigned judge routes to another sitting district judge. FAMILY TEMPORARY ORDERS (3.5): "Each party present at any hearing on temporary orders shall be limited to twenty minutes total to present its evidence, cross-examine, rebut, and argue its case, unless the court affirmatively orders otherwise." MOTION PRACTICE (4.1): parties use all reasonable efforts to resolve pre-trial disputes; every motion (except the 4.1.3 exemptions) carries a signed Certificate of Conference in one of three forms (conference held without resolution; movant attempted contact but respondent did not respond; unopposed); the certificate is not required for dispositive motions, summary judgments, default judgments, nonsuits, post-verdict motions, and service-of-citation motions. GOVERNMENT-EMPLOYEE SUBPOENAS (4.2): before issuing a subpoena to a non-party government employee, the requesting party contacts the entity's legal representative or CEO at least three business days ahead to identify the person with knowledge, and the subpoena carries a certificate reciting either the timely-but-unanswered contact attempts or the inability to agree with the reasons the person/documents are critical; non-compliance may draw a granted motion to quash with expenses and fees. DISCOVERY MOTIONS (4.3): sanctions, objection-ruling, and compel motions set out the disputed interrogatory or request, the objection, and the answer/response "in one concise document." PROTECTIVE ORDER (4.4): parties may agree to the website's standard form protective order; on one party's motion the court may enter it unless an objection is filed within 10 days. WITHDRAWALS (4.5): TRCP 10 compliance; no withdrawal within 30 days of trial without leave; the motion and order carry the client's last known email; granted without hearing if the client signed, new counsel appeared, or a certified-and-regular-mail notice gave the client 10 days to object with none filed. DWOP (4.6): dismissal for failure to set/schedule/act after notice, failure to appear for trial or pretrial, failure to announce ready, or any other reason permitted by law. FINAL JUDGMENTS (4.7): "Within 30 days after reported settlement, rendition, or verdict, parties shall submit to the court a written final judgment"; failing that, "the court may presume that the parties wish the case dismissed with prejudice with costs taxed at the court's discretion." ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (4.8): "All self-represented litigants and attorneys who utilize any form of artificial intelligence (such as ChatGPT, Harvey.AI, Google Bard, TensorFlow, OpenAI, Bing) for legal research or drafting in connection with a case shall, before using any AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, ensure that such information is accurate and correctly portrayed to the court."
Reviewer note: Operative provisions composed verbatim from the registered document (has a text layer; DocuSign-executed May 6, 2026 by all district judges — signature block matches the OCA bench); the §4.8 AI rule is the district courts' AI regime, the accuracy-verification counterpart to the county courts at law's mandatory-disclosure CCL Standing Order No. 3; the own-site copy (district-courts/documents/lrp.pdf) is the same instrument; custody sha256 in the registry ledger (doc 3015). Companion: the Local Rules of Administration (doc 2441).
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