These 36 rules apply across King County Superior Court. Where this judge's own standing orders above address the same topic, the judge's requirement controls.
Counsel/parties must jointly complete the witness examination estimate form and email it to the bailiff at scott.court@kingcounty.gov as soon as possible.
Each courtroom has a designated email address in the form [judge's last name.court]@kingcounty.gov that counsel (or their staff) must use when communicating with court staff by email.
Commissioners' departments have no individual email addresses; the family law, ex parte, and mental health departments each share a single departmental email address.
Time estimates on the form must be expressed in tenths of hours and the completed form must be totaled.
Trial length estimates must assume a 5-hour trial day and account for witness exams, jury questions in civil cases, opening and closing arguments, voir dire, and motions in limine.
Parties may use the court's form or their own form, provided it includes the requested information.
Counsel must confer to determine cross-examination time estimates for each party's witnesses and jointly prepare the form.
Each additional party must create and complete the witness examination information for that party's witnesses.
Failure to complete the form and disclose witnesses may result in exclusion of witnesses or other sanctions.
The witness examination estimate form must not be filed with the clerk's office; it is submitted to the bailiff by email instead.
Email may not be used to deliver working copies of legal pleadings, including jury instructions, without prior permission of the court.
Exhibits may be submitted digitally or in hardcopy, and the Order from Pretrial Conference in each case specifies which format is ordered.
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Judge Ken Schubert sits in the district division of King County Superior Court, Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County, which handles a broad range of civil and criminal matters.
Practitioners will find Judge Schubert's published procedures, including trial procedures and general practices, in the documents 'schubert-trial-procedures.pdf' and 'schubert'.
Courtesy copies are required for exhibits. Details: 2 copies, delivery at trial, by hand delivery. Counsel must bring two complete sets of trial exhibits (one for the clerk's official set and one for the court's working copies) and may not ask court staff to make copies.
Judge Ken Schubert's rules set a pre-motion procedure for in limine. Counsel must confer with opposing counsel regarding motions in limine and inform the court on the record of any stipulations or absence of objection.
Judge Ken Schubert's formatting rule includes file format docx and provide proposed orders to the court by emailing them to the bailiff. All proposed orders must be provided to the Court in Word format by emailing them to the bailiff.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. All hearings for motions, including stipulated motions, must be noted pursuant to LCR 7(b)(4).
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Parties must comply with all requirements of LCR 7(b)(4)(A) when setting motions without oral argument.
Parties may contact Judge Ken Schubert's chambers by email only as allowed by the rule. Dispositive motions are heard on Fridays, and hearing date requests are made by emailing or telephoning the bailiff consistent with LCR 7(b)(4)(B).
Requests should be made at least 9 working days in advance when this rule applies before Judge Ken Schubert. Requests to change the trial date must be made by motion, filed and noted for hearing on a nine-court-day calendar.
Yes. Electronic filing is required for the covered filings. A set of both cited and un-cited proposed jury instructions must be e-mailed in Word format to the court's bailiff.
The rule addresses filing timing, filing status, or cure windows. A Note for Hearing for a summary judgment motion must be filed and served within five days of receiving a hearing date, or the Court may release the reserved hearing date.
The rule addresses service method, recipient, or timing requirements. Details: method: service by mail. If no email address is available, parties must provide preaddressed, stamped envelopes so the Court can mail the signed order.
E-mailed proposed jury instructions must be submitted in Word format.
Counsel must confer with opposing counsel regarding motions in limine and inform the court on the record of any stipulations or absence of objection.
Counsel must bring two complete sets of trial exhibits (one for the clerk's official set and one for the court's working copies) and may not ask court staff to make copies.
A set of both cited and un-cited proposed jury instructions must be e-mailed in Word format to the court's bailiff.
A set of cited proposed jury instructions must be filed with the court clerk.
All hearings for motions, including stipulated motions, must be noted pursuant to LCR 7(b)(4).
Parties must comply with all requirements of LCR 7(b)(4)(A) when setting motions without oral argument.
All proposed orders must be provided to the Court in Word format by emailing them to the bailiff.
Signed orders are distributed through e-filing to parties who sign up for e-service.
Self-represented parties not enrolled in e-service may receive signed orders via an email address provided to the bailiff.
If no email address is available, parties must provide preaddressed, stamped envelopes so the Court can mail the signed order.
Dispositive motions are heard on Fridays, and hearing date requests are made by emailing or telephoning the bailiff consistent with LCR 7(b)(4)(B).
A Note for Hearing for a summary judgment motion must be filed and served within five days of receiving a hearing date, or the Court may release the reserved hearing date.
All unattached exhibits in a deposition must be stapled or secured inside the back cover of the deposition.
Email requests for dispositive motion hearings must include the case name and cause number, counsel names/phone numbers/email addresses, and the type of hearing and dates requested.
Additional hearing time may be available for multi-party or complex cases, and parties must advise the bailiff when scheduling of any request for more time and of any interpreter needs.
In the paperless Department 40, parties must file a working copies submission list identifying by docket number where each filing for the hearing can be found.
Parties need not submit e-working copies and must not email, mail, or messenger hard copies of working papers.
Requests to change the trial date must be made by motion, filed and noted for hearing on a nine-court-day calendar.
Stipulated or agreed motions to continue trial may be submitted on a two-court-day calendar pursuant to LCR 7(b)(4)(H).
The Court grants timely trial continuance motions based on good cause, and the motion must be accompanied by a declaration describing the nature of the case, completed discovery and trial preparation, what remains, and why the case could not be completed within the original case schedule.
Untimely motions to change the trial date will not be granted except under extraordinary circumstances where there is no alternative means of preventing a substantial injustice under LCR 40(e)(2).
The Joint Statement of Evidence must be filed no later than five court days before the scheduled trial date pursuant to Local Rule 16(5).
Except in criminal cases, parties must upload trial exhibits to Case Center using the instructions attached to the Pre-Trial Conference Order.
Depositions must not be marked as exhibits because they are part of the court file, though exhibits to a deposition may be marked as exhibits in evidence.