The Court will not move or strike CMC dates, modify deadlines, or litigate issues by email even with an Agreed Order absent exceptional circumstances or Court rescheduling, with a limited exception for duplicate/mistaken dates.
Deposition transcripts should be submitted in mini-script format (4 pages per printed page) and double-sided.
Briefs are limited to 15 pages unless the Court orders more, and requests for additional pages are not routinely granted.
The movant must deliver paper courtesy copies of briefed motions no fewer than seven days before the hearing, subject to any different date set by Court Order.
Orders must be retrieved from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County (CCC) Portal.
Please use the most recent form Order on the clerk’s website and agree on a date in Room 2005 for trial setting within 14 days. If the parties already have a trial date, that date will stand in lieu of a 14 day trial setting. Please also include in your Order the striking of future CMC dates in Room 2205.
The Court accepts an Agreed Trial Certification Order at any time by email, even before the trial certification date.
A pre-trial memorandum may be submitted by drop-off or email three days before the conference.
A case not already on Calendar X must be transferred to Judge Walsh by order obtained from Courtroom 2005 before a pretrial conference.
Petitions to approve settlement orders must be presented electronically by emailing the unfiled petition and proposed order to the Calendar X email.
After a settlement petition is approved, the Court will direct the petition to be e-filed and will then enter the order.
The Court will generally schedule oral argument for any briefed motion.
Parties may submit a pre-trial memorandum by three days before the conference by drop off or via email containing (1) a summary of the allegations/defenses, evidence, claimed injuries and specials/damages, and; (2) the last demand/offer/policy limit.
Motions to strike briefs, affidfields, or portions of either are decided with the underlying motion without a separate response or reply.
Settled cases involving minors, disabled persons, and survival/wrongful death claims must use the appropriate form order dismissing the case for Court approval, set as a date certain, to avoid losing jurisdiction after 30 days.
All briefs should be submitted double-sided.
