Lyon County Circuit Court, Kentucky Pre-Motion Conference Requirements

Before seeking a continuance, an attorney unable to attend must immediately try to agree on a new hearing date with the moving attorney; if unsuccessful, the requesting attorney or self-represented party must immediately file a written motion stating the reasons and serve opposing counsel.

An attorney who will be unable to be present at the time set for a motion shall immediately contact the moving attorney and attempt to establish a mutually agreeable date and time for the hearing of the motion. Should this prove unsuccessful, an attorney or self-represented party desiring the continuance shall immediately file a motion for a continuance in writing, stating the reasons for the continuance, and shall serve a copy upon the opposing counsel.

Counsel in civil cases must make a good-faith effort to resolve discovery disputes, and a discovery motion may not be made unless counsel certifies the required efforts and their unsuccessful result.

Counsel in civil cases shall have the duty to make a good faith effort to resolve by agreement among themselves any disputes which arise in the course of discovery. No motions pertaining to discovery shall be made to the Court unless there is appended to such motion or contained within it a certificate of counsel that he/she has conferred or corresponded with opposing counsel, that they are unable to reconcile their differences, and that counsel has otherwise exhausted reasonable extrajudicial means in an effort to resolve discovery differences.