Superior Court, Judicial District of New London, Connecticut Filing Rules

Trial management memoranda must include the listed content, including the parties’ positions and settlement efforts, outstanding matters, trial estimates, witnesses, trial needs, and other preliminary matters.

When reasonably practicable, records-disclosure motions for substance-abuse records and qualified-protective-order motions for protected health information must be filed before trial or hearing.

Attorneys and law firms without an electronic-services exemption must electronically submit PDF exhibits in paperless Civil matters for hearings and trials.

A self-represented party is presumed unable to view electronic exhibits unless the party submits exhibits electronically or gives the submitter written confirmation of that ability.

No notice will be sent for future dates set in court or at conferences; absent counsel must obtain the date and time from the clerk’s office and promptly notify the client.

Exhibits must be copied single-sided.

A party who twice misses an ordered or approved evaluation or examination, without first obtaining a timely good-cause postponement or rescheduling at no cost to the payer, is subject to sanctions.

Documentation containing personal identifying information must be redacted in accordance with Practice Book 4-7.

Counsel and self-represented parties may request a monthly land-use appeal calendar hearing for settlement or withdrawal motions and, if necessary, request that they be placed on the next available calendar.

Counsel must bring two copies of proposed exhibits to court.