These 44 rules apply across King County Superior Court. Where this judge's own standing orders above address the same topic, the judge's requirement controls.
Parties must check with the Court before faxing or emailing documents or pleadings.
Counsel/parties must jointly complete the Estimate of Witness Examinations form and email it to the bailiff at scott.court@kingcounty.gov as soon as possible.
This policy governs only email communication with court staff and does not establish a preference for email over other forms of communication.
Time estimates on the form must be expressed in tenths of hours and the form must be totaled once completed.
Trial length estimates must assume 5 hours per full trial day and account for witness exams, jury questions in civil cases, opening and closing arguments, voir dire, and motions in limine.
Counsel must confer to determine cross-examination time estimates for each party's witnesses and jointly prepare the form.
Documents must follow local court rules for pagination.
The deposition designation process must begin with a PDF of the transcript because the final marked product will be in PDF format.
The moving party must highlight its deposition designations in a single particular color (e.g., yellow).
New cases and additional documents may be filed online, by mail, or in person at the Clerk's Office.
The Estimate of Witness Examinations form must not be filed with the clerk's office; it is submitted to the bailiff by email instead.
Parties may email the courtroom to ask whether the judge will accept pleadings, jury instructions, legal memoranda, and similar documents as email submissions, with acceptance at the judge's discretion.
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Judge Taki Flevaris is a judge on the King County Superior Court, Washington's trial court of general jurisdiction for King County.
Practitioners will find a motion for revision form (dated 09/26/2023) among this judge's published procedures.
Judge Taki Flevaris's rules set a pre-motion procedure for rule 56. Parties must coordinate and confirm a hearing date and time with the Bailiff before filing a Notice of Hearing for any summary judgment motion.
Judge Taki Flevaris' formatting rule includes file format docx, editable word (.doc) format whenever possible, proponent's signature in electronic format: digitally certified signature, 's/' signature, or electronic image of the person's signature (gr 30; rcw 1.80.010(10)), and for joint motions, signatures from each and every proponent required. Proposed orders should be in editable Word (.doc) format with electronic signatures, and joint motions require signatures from every proponent.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Written submissions must support disputed material assertions with particularized citations (specific page/section/paragraph), docket citations with specific docket number and page, and legal authority with pincites and parentheticals where needed.
The rule identifies required filing content or certificates. Factual declarations must comply with General Rule 13 (certification), Local Civil Rule 7(b)(5)(B) (form), and Evidence Rule 701 (lay opinion).
The rule addresses email communications with Judge Taki Flevaris' chambers. All case communications with the Bailiff must use only the courtroom email address, copy all other parties, and not use the Judge's individual address absent express invitation.
A motion to seal is required for covered sealed filings before Judge Taki Flevaris. 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.
Advance notice is not fully stated in the structured details. The request must include reason for request. Trial continuances require a good-cause showing of diligence and need, including what preparation is complete, what remains, and why the case could not be completed on the original schedule.
Bundling is encouraged for covered papers before Judge Taki Flevaris. For cross-motions for summary judgment, parties are strongly urged to stipulate to four briefs filed sequentially (with combined opposition/cross-motion and reply/cross-opposition) rather than six briefs in two parallel sets.
The rule addresses filing timing, filing status, or cure windows. All memoranda, reports, or other documents submitted for consideration at sentencing must be on file prior to the sentencing hearing.
Participants are encouraged to indicate their personal pronouns to the Bailiff, within written submissions, and in their Zoom names.
All case communications with the Bailiff must use only the courtroom email address, copy all other parties, and not use the Judge's individual address absent express invitation.
Phone contact with the Court is a last resort, and any call or voicemail must clearly identify the case number at the outset.
Unrepresented parties must seek any special relief from the Court timely via written motion with supporting materials.
Written submissions should refer to parties and other persons by individualized names or unique identifiers rather than only generic roles.
Written submissions must support disputed material assertions with particularized citations (specific page/section/paragraph), docket citations with specific docket number and page, and legal authority with pincites and parentheticals where needed.
Factual declarations must comply with General Rule 13 (certification), Local Civil Rule 7(b)(5)(B) (form), and Evidence Rule 701 (lay opinion).
Factual declarations must not be combined with legal argument; attestations must be set forth separately and legal argument must cite the attested facts with particularity.
Motions for revision of a Commissioner's order shall only identify the error(s) claimed per Local Rule 7(b)(8)(A).
Revision motions are limited to four elements: LCR 7(b)(8)(B)(iii) hearing information, the errors claimed, where the issue was argued below, and all relevant record evidence.
Each claimed error must be presented as a single, separate concise statement (no more than a few sentences), akin to an assignment of error on appeal.
Record citations in revision motions must specify the specific docket number and page range for each portion of argument or evidence, and nothing more.
Moving parties are urged to use the Department's Revision Form; otherwise the Court may require the Sheet to be filled out as a supplement to the motion.
Revision motions must not present further argument or factual assertions (which will be disregarded), and motions to strike such extraneous material will likely be struck as moot.
Opposing parties may file and serve a supplemental Revision Sheet with additional citations (and nothing more) if the moving party's record citations are materially incomplete.
Any party may request an exception from the revision-motion standards upon a showing of case-specific need.
Parties must coordinate and confirm a hearing date and time with the Bailiff before filing a Notice of Hearing for any summary judgment motion.
For cross-motions for summary judgment, parties are strongly urged to stipulate to four briefs filed sequentially (with combined opposition/cross-motion and reply/cross-opposition) rather than six briefs in two parallel sets.
Parties are urged to include proposed word counts in stipulated cross-motion briefing schedules.
If no agreement on cross-motion streamlining is reached, any party may (and is urged to) email the Bailiff to request a short conference for direction on streamlining.
Trial continuances require a good-cause showing of diligence and need, including what preparation is complete, what remains, and why the case could not be completed on the original schedule.
Continuance motions filed after the Case Schedule deadline will be granted only upon extraordinary circumstances with no alternative means of preventing a substantial injustice.
Even agreed continuance motions must include a basic showing satisfying the applicable standard.
Stipulated motions may be noted for consideration two judicial days after filing.
Stipulated motions must be filed separately into the docket with the proposed order presented separately to the Department for review.
Motions to shorten time are strongly disfavored; the underlying motion must be noted in the regular course with a separate motion to shorten time, and briefing proceeds on the default timeline unless shortened time is granted.
Attorney fee requests must specify the legal grounds and should include a fee declaration with counsel's experience and rates, a time-entry log, and whether entries were contemporaneous and paid.
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.
Motions to seal must comply with GR 15, LGR 15, and controlling caselaw; party agreement is insufficient, and a proposed order with the required findings must be provided.
Proposed orders must be submitted via Working Copies and make clear precisely what the party is asking the Court to do.