Bexar County Civil District Courts Document Format Requirements

Each requested jury instruction must be numbered and presented with supporting authority.

Each requested instruction must be numbered and presented with authority.

All exhibits must be pre-marked and exchanged among counsel, with marking instructions available from Judy.

All exhibits must be pre-marked and exchanged among counsel (please see Judy for instructions on how exhibits should be marked).

Parties must provide the Court with complete sets of trial exhibits in a properly tabbed and indexed notebook.

The parties must provide the Court with complete sets of exhibits for use at trial in a properly tabbed and indexed notebook.

Parties must submit a single unified jury charge, with each disputed instruction, definition, or question set out in bold, underlined, or italics, identified as disputed, and labeled with the requesting party.

Even if the parties cannot, after a good faith attempt, agree on all proposed instructions, definitions and questions, the parties should nonetheless submit a single, unified charge. Each disputed instruction, definition, or question should be set out in bold type, underlined, or in italics and identified as disputed. Each disputed item should be labeled to show which party is requesting the disputed language.

The court prefers one party to draft the order with the other submitting visible redline edits shareable via Zoom screen share, and disfavors two competing orders though it recognizes this is sometimes necessary.

The court's preference is one party drafts the order, and the other party submits visible redline edits which can later be shared with the court via Zoom's "share screen" component. The court disfavors operating from two competing orders, however, recognizes in some instances it is necessary.

Highlighted copies of each deposition excerpt are preferred for the Court.

A copy of each deposition excerpt highlighted is preferred for the Court.