Circuit Court for Davidson County, Tennessee Document Format Requirements

Required

Always

Exhibits should be printed before trial with an additional copy for the Court; unprinted exhibits may be admitted in original form, but the Court may require a late-filed hard copy within five days of the hearing.

When possible, all exhibits, such as text message threads, photographs, emails, and other written communications, shall be printed prior to trial with an additional copy for the Court. The Court will allow text messages, emails, audio-visual videos, voicemails, etc., to be admitted in their original forms if they have not been printed prior to the hearing; however, the Court may either incorporate the exhibit by reference or require the submitting party to provide a hard copy to be marked as a late-filed exhibit within five (5) days of the hearing.

Format

DOCX

Proposed jury instructions must include the full text of each requested instruction in a Word document.

When submitting proposed jury instructions, attorneys must provide the full text of each proposed instruction that they are requesting in a Word document.

Every page of a pleading, brief, or memoranda must be numbered.

Every page of a pleading, brief, or memoranda filed with the Circuit Court Clerk and/or submitted directly to the Court must be numbered.