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The 12th District Court’s standing order requiring mediation (Walker County edition; effective October 23, 2024) before any evidentiary oral hearing, and for final trial no more than 90 days before trial. Each party must confer to schedule mediation and complete it before the court date, or move to compel at least 45 days before trial; mediation is excused for enumerated matters (discovery motions, summary judgment, defaults, nonsuits, service motions, new-trial motions and TROs), and each attorney may be present with the client throughout.
Texas > Walker County > 12th District Court. Shared 12th & 278th Judicial District instrument; Walker County edition.
STANDING ORDER REGARDING MEDIATION IN THE 12th DISTRICT COURT PRIOR TO AN EVIDENTIARY ORAL HEARING (EXCEPT AS SPECIFIED BELOW). THE COURT ORDERS ALL PARTIES TO ATTEND MEDIATION. THE PARTIES ARE ORDERED TO PARTICIPATE IN A SEPARATE MEDIATION FOR FINAL TRIAL, NO MORE THAN 90 DAYS PRIOR TO FINAL TRIAL. ANY MEDIATION FOR FINAL TRIAL THAT IS CONDUCTED MORE THAN NINETY (90) DAYS PRIOR TO THE TRIAL DATE WILL BE CONSIDERED TOO REMOTE IN TIME TO COMPLY WITH THIS ORDER. Each party has the duty, and is THEREFORE ORDERED, to call or email the opposing counsel/party to schedule a date for mediation prior to your hearing/trial, and to complete your mediation before your court date. If a party is unable to get cooperation from the opposing side to schedule mediation prior to final trial after reasonable effort to obtain same, the complying party IS ORDERED to file a motion to compel mediation at least 45 days prior to trial. Mediation is not required prior to a hearing on the following matters: motions to compel discovery, summary judgment motions, default judgments, motion for voluntary dismissal or nonsuit, motions involving service of citation, motions for new trial, and TROs. After a TRO is set and the matter is before the Court for injunctive relief, the Court may or may not refer the matter to mediation depending on the nature of the case. All parties and their attorneys are required to attend all scheduled mediation sessions for the purpose of engaging in constructive settlement negotiations. Mediation is intended to give each party the opportunity to reach an agreement in a cooperative environment. It places each party in the position of determining the outcome of his/her case. All persons involved with the mediation of this dispute (including the mediator, the parties, and their attorneys) shall be governed by the confidentiality provisions of TEX. R. EVID. 408 and TEX. CIV. PRAC. & REM. CODE §§ 154.054 and 154.073. IT IS ORDERED THAT EACH ATTORNEY SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEDIATION AND BE PRESENT WITH HIS/HER CLIENT(S) AT ALL TIMES, IF HE/SHE DESIRES, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ALL PARTIES ARE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY. Date: Oct 25, 2024 [handwritten] [signature] DAVID W. MOORMAN, JUDGE PRESIDING, 12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Effective 10/23/24
Reviewer note: AJR-2 cluster (12th/278th/506th). Source instrument read via vision/text lane; classified RULE under the records-vs-rules doctrine. Composed benchpath-ajr2-cluster. Applicability 2026-09-09 (fix program 2026-09-09, Phase 5, audit M7): specific -> universal — the row binds every court in its state/circuit/county scope and names no court, judge or division. [RECOMPOSED 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P7, digital-layer lane): the full text of the registered file (sha256 7a922f54b684..., 1 pages) replaces the earlier 527-character abstract. Method: pypdfium2 text layer reflowed page-aware, cross-checked word-by-word against PyMuPDF (0 substantive difference(s), 0 page-furniture), owner-corpus candidate sentences 100% (4/4) matched, 0 running header/footer line(s) removed, no U+FFFD/U+FFFE/form-feed debris. NOT yet checked page by page against the render, so confidence is medium with an open re-verification task; flip to high when a reviewer has read every page against the PDF. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p7-2026-09-21] [BY-EYE CHECK 2026-09-21 (corpus-0920 P11): every page of the registered file (sha256 7a922f54b684..., 1 page(s)) read against the rendered PDF; file-stamp, caption and signature-block defects of the text layer corrected from the render; confidence lifted to high. benchpath-tx-corpus0920-p11-2026-09-21]
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.
Standing order of the 109th Judicial District Court for every pending or later-filed case in Andrews, Winkler and Crane Counties: any attorney or self-represented litigant who uses any form of artificial intelligence for legal research or drafting in a case must, before using AI-generated information in a court submission or proceeding, sign and submit the court's certification form stating that all language, quotations, sources, citations, arguments and legal analysis created or contributed to by generative AI were verified as accurate by a human through traditional (non-AI) legal sources, and acknowledging responsibility and potential sanctions for their or their co-counsel's failure to comply. Effective immediately; in effect until rescinded or replaced.