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Judge Don Pierson's County Court at Law No. 1 trial and pre-trial procedures (page last modified Oct. 16, 2025): no settlement, dismissal or nonsuit involving a minor without an ad litem's recommendation; agreed scheduling orders with jury trials set as "the week of" a Monday; mediation before trial when ordered, with opposed parties moving and conferring; a certificate of conference (with prescribed wording) before any non-dispositive motion is set, none required for summary judgments; telephone motion hearings by agreement; agreed continuances in cases under a year old granted without hearing, signatures of all counsel required for older cases, opposed continuances heard; eviction appeals given docket priority and continued only for good cause (medical good cause by physician letter) for two weeks or less; an 18-person jury panel unless arranged a week ahead; juror questionnaires by agreement; expert challenges filed more than a week before trial; motions in limine, exhibit and witness lists and the proposed charge or findings filed and exchanged by the morning of trial, with the charge e-mailed to the court reporter (BJPartin@tarrantcountytx.gov) the business day before.
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"Suits Involving Minors: The Court will not approve the settlement, dismissal or nonsuit of any cause of action involving a minor without the recommendation of an ad litem. Scheduling Orders: … For jury trials, the trial date shall be listed as 'the week of…' and shall specify (1) the date of the Monday of the scheduled week; and (2) the estimated trial time. … Mediation: When ordered, mediation m
Reviewer note: Own-site HTML page read in full 2026-09-06 from custody; quoted verbatim. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant (own-site lane).
Judge Wolfe enforces AO S-2024-062(28)(A) with teeth: every pretrial motion in a case transferred to TD-3 must be scheduled and heard by the original transferring judge — failure to do so timely is deemed a waiver.
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