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 Maureen McKee is a judge on the King County Superior Court, sitting in the district division. King County Superior Court is Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County, handling a broad range of civil, criminal, family, and juvenile matters.
Practitioners will find this judge's specific procedures in the published document titled 'mckee', which outlines the courtroom rules and practices for this judge.
Courtesy copies are required for working copys. Details: delivery when needed. Working-copy documents must not be delivered to the courtroom.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Parties must comply with all KCLR 7 requirements when setting non-dispositive motions without oral argument.
Parties may contact Judge Maureen McKee's chambers by email only as allowed by the rule. Judge McKee performs weddings by appointment; parties should email the bailiff for availability and fee information.
Judge Maureen McKee's rules specify what an adjournment or extension request must include. Motions to continue trial (other than the 28-day adjustment authorized by LCR 40(e)(1)) are granted only on the basis of good cause.
A fee is required for covered filings. A fee must be paid to submit eWorking copies through the Clerk's Office e-filing application.
Yes. Electronic filing is required for the covered filings. Working copies are not official copies; official court documents must be filed in the Superior Court Clerk's Office.
The rule addresses service method, recipient, or timing requirements. Details: method: service by mail, recipient: all parties. If no email address is on file, parties must provide preaddressed, stamped envelopes so the Court can mail signed orders.
Parties must comply with all KCLR 7 requirements when setting non-dispositive motions without oral argument.
Proposed orders must be provided to the Court in Word format by emailing them to the bailiff.
Signed orders are delivered electronically to counsel or parties who have provided email addresses to the Court.
If no email address is on file, parties must provide preaddressed, stamped envelopes so the Court can mail signed orders.
Motions to continue trial (other than the 28-day adjustment authorized by LCR 40(e)(1)) are granted only on the basis of good cause.
A motion to continue trial 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 on the original schedule; a bare assertion that more time is needed is insufficient.
After the Final Date to Change Trial, trial continuances are granted only under extraordinary circumstances as provided by LCR 40(e)(2).
Working copies are not official copies; official court documents must be filed in the Superior Court Clerk's Office.
Working-copy documents must not be delivered to the courtroom.
Working copies may be submitted electronically as eWorking copies through the Clerk's Office e-filing application for a fee, except documents of 500 or more pages which must be delivered in paper form.
A fee must be paid to submit eWorking copies through the Clerk's Office e-filing application.
Paper working copies may be delivered to the judge's mail room at the King County Courthouse, 516 3rd Avenue, Room C-203, Seattle, WA 98104.
Judge McKee performs weddings by appointment; parties should email the bailiff for availability and fee information.