King County Superior Court Filing Rules

Time estimates on the form must be expressed in tenths of hours and the completed form must be totaled.

Submission of the witness time estimates form is mandatory in cases before Judge Crisalli.

When setting motions without oral argument, parties must comply with all requirements of LCR 7(b)(4)(A).

Attorneys must submit one Supreme Court certification of defense counsel per quarter.

All civil motions, including stipulated motions, must be noted pursuant to LCR 7(b) and filed with the clerk.

All parties must be copied on any email sent to the court.

Counsel and parties must jointly complete the Estimate of Witness Examinations form and email it to the bailiff at mccoy.court@kingcounty.gov as soon as possible.

The completed witness time estimates form must be emailed to the bailiff at Crisalli.Court@kingcounty.gov at least 2 days before the pretrial conference.

Parties may not email Judge Whedbee directly; all correspondence must be sent through the bailiff.

Parties must promptly notify the Court and each other when a noted motion no longer needs to be heard.

The Estimate of Witness Examinations form must not be filed with the clerk's office; it is submitted to the bailiff via email instead.

Under LGR 30, attorneys must e-file most documents through the Clerk's eFiling application unless a waiver is obtained; unrepresented parties may optionally use the services.

Department 47 is paperless; proposed orders (Word format) and working copies of motions and declarations must be submitted electronically via the e-filing portal's e-working copies application.

Department 30 is paperless and prefers working copies submitted as e-working copies.

Exhibits may be submitted digitally or in hardcopy, with the required format set by the Order from Pretrial Conference in each case.

Proposed orders must be submitted in Word format.

Attachments or exhibits exceeding 25 pages must be numbered consecutively (without restarting) at the bottom center or right-hand corner, and motions, oppositions, replies, and briefs must cite to those page numbers or risk the hearing being delayed.

All submissions must clearly mark Judge Robertson's name.

Unattached exhibits in a deposition must be stapled or secured inside the back cover of the deposition.

Signed stipulated orders emailed to the bailiff must be in Word format.

Stipulated and agreed motions must be served, filed, and noted for consideration two judicial days after filing per LCR 7(b)(4)(H), with a working copy of the order submitted through e-working copies.

After the court reserves a hearing date, the moving party has 2 court days to file the Note for Motion to confirm it.

Sentencing memoranda from both parties are due no later than noon the day before the sentencing hearing, or the hearing will be rescheduled.

All trial memoranda, the joint statement of evidence, and other trial submissions are due no later than 5 court days before the trial date.

Within 48 hours after confirming a hearing date, parties must file and provide a working copy of the Note for Motion and Proof of Service.

Requests to change the trial date must be made by motion, filed and noted on a nine-day calendar.

Parties seeking a trial continuance in civil cases must review and comply with LCR 40(e).

If parties anticipate a trial continuance, they must first file the continuance before seeking a later motion hearing date.

Requests to change the trial date must be made by motion, filed and noted on a nine-day calendar.

Trial continuances (other than the 28-day adjustment under LCR 40(e)(1)) are granted only on a showing of good cause.

Dispositive motions are heard on Fridays, and parties must check with opposing counsel/party to confirm a mutually agreeable hearing date before scheduling.

Motions set for oral argument must be confirmed with the bailiff.

For dispositive motions, parties must first request hearing dates from the bailiff via email and may not note the motion until receiving an email confirming the hearing has been scheduled.

Judge Vargas encourages the parties to request a CR 16 or CR 26(f) pretrial conference on discovery issues, and may order the parties to participate in a pretrial conference in complex cases or when discovery is not proceeding well.

Before requesting a hearing date for a dispositive motion, the requesting party must confer with opposing counsel.

Attorneys must promptly register to accept e-service via the Clerk's eFiling application unless a waiver is obtained.

The opposing party must be served with a copy of both the proposed order and the motion.

Signed orders are delivered electronically when an email address is on file; parties without an email address on file must provide preaddressed, stamped envelopes for mail delivery.

Emails to court staff containing substantive information must also be sent to opposing counsel and indicate on their face that opposing counsel was copied.

Motions must be served on all relevant parties.

Judge Sutton's court is paperless; working copies must be submitted as e-working copies through the Clerk's Office.

For criminal matters, working copies must be submitted via eWorking Copies or the Judge's mailroom with Judge Port's name and case information clearly marked, and email working copies are not accepted absent prior authorization.

Deliveries must not be made directly to the courtroom unless arranged with the bailiff; all deliveries must go to the judges' mailroom.

Stipulations and agreed orders may be submitted via e-Working Copies or to the Judge's mailroom.

Proposed cited jury instructions must be provided as one hard copy and one electronic copy, numbered and identified by proposing party with supporting annotations, with the court's copy emailed to the bailiff in Word format.

Original deposition transcripts must be sealed; if published/impeached in open court the sealed original is filed in the case file (not as an exhibit), while unused transcripts are not filed and are returned to counsel.

Motions to seal must comply with GR 15/LGR 15 and caselaw; party agreement alone is insufficient; a proposed order with required findings is needed; documents may not be filed under seal or redacted without a prior court order.

Motions to seal must comply with GR 15, LGR 15, and controlling caselaw; party agreement alone cannot justify sealing or redaction.

GR 22 cover sheets may only be used to seal filings meeting the cover sheet standards (without altering the form); otherwise a motion to seal under GR 15/LGR 15 is required.

Defense counsel must present a motion and proposed order for sealing, and the sealing order itself may not be sealed.

Motions to shorten time are strongly disfavored, and the motion to shorten time must be submitted separately while the underlying motion is noted in the regular course.

Cross-motions and additional separately briefed dispositive motions must be separately scheduled with the court and may not be included in a response to a motion.

Cross-motions and additional separately briefed dispositive motions must be separately scheduled with the Court and may not be included as part of a response.

A request for consideration on shortened time requires both noting the underlying motion in the regular course and filing a separate motion to shorten time.

Parties must cooperate and use a single set of depositions marked for the Judge's consideration rather than separate sets.

A fee must be paid to submit eWorking copies through the Clerk's Office e-filing application.

Documents filed by mail must include the filing fee.

Settlement conference memoranda or letters must be typewritten and 3 to 5 pages.

New attorneys may email the bailiff to request oral argument for practice on motions that normally do not require it, and the judge will consider the request.