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Alameda County trial document templates

Not legal advice. Rules checked against the code on August 20, 2026. Verify every date yourself. Read the full disclaimer

Core CCP rules were checked against Westlaw (via CoCounsel legal research) on August 20, 2026. County local rules are paraphrased summaries. Individual department and judge standing orders are included only where the court publishes them and we have read the document, so assume your own department has requirements beyond what you see here. Verify every date against the operative code sections, your court’s rules and your department’s own order before relying on it. Using this site creates no attorney-client relationship.

12 documents, 15 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Alameda’s own published rules and read 2026-09-14. Each one downloads as California pleading paper with this court’s required sections already placed, so the document cannot silently omit one.

A blank template is easy to find anywhere. What is hard to find is which sections this court requires inside the document, because that lives in a local rule nobody indexes. Every heading below is cited to the subdivision it came from, and the rule’s own sentence prints beside it in the reference sheet so you can check your work.

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The reference sheet below carries everything this court requires, each rule quoted from its own text and cited to the subdivision. The pleading paper templates are temporarily down while the line numbering is rebuilt, because the rail did not line up with the body text and a pleading whose lines cannot be cited is worse than no template at all.

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  • Index of Exhibits to Be Offered at Trialeach party, 3 required sections. exchanged with every other party at least three court days before the pretrial conference, and submitted with one extra copy to the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • Deposition and Discovery Excerpts to Be Used in Lieu of Live Testimonyeach party, 1 required sections. submitted to every other party at least three court days before the pretrial conference, or three court days before trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • Motions in Limineeach party, 1 required sections. filed in the clerk's office at least three court days before the pretrial conference, or three court days before trial if there is no pretrial conference
    Pleading paper is being corrected
  • List of Witnesses to Be Called at Trialeach party, 1 required sections. personally served on every other party three court days before the pretrial conference, or three court days before trial if none is scheduled, and presented in triplicate to the courtroom clerk at the conference
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  • Proposed Jury Instructionseach party, 1 required sections. personally served on every other party three court days before the pretrial conference, and submitted to the courtroom clerk at the conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • Form of Verdict or Special Verdictjointly, 1 required sections. meet and confer at least three court days before the pretrial conference, and submit the form to the courtroom clerk at the conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
    Pleading paper is being corrected
  • Supplemental Voir Dire Questions and Proposed Juror Questionnaireeach party, 1 required sections. personally served on every other party three court days before the pretrial conference, and submitted to the courtroom clerk at the conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • Originals of Depositions to Be Used at Trialeach party, 1 required sections. lodged with the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • Agreed Summary of the Casejointly, 1 required sections. meet and confer in advance, and submit to the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • Special Glossary of Termsjointly, 1 required sections. submitted in duplicate to the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled
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  • CEQA Trial Notebookplaintiff, 1 required sections. filed with the designated CEQA department 14 days before the hearing date, or when the reply brief is filed, whichever is later
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  • Administrative Record Collections for the Trial Judgeplaintiff, 2 required sections. delivered to the assigned CEQA department at the same time as the trial notebook, which is 14 days before the hearing date or when the reply brief is filed, whichever is later
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Everything this court requires in one editable document, with each rule quoted and cited.

What each document has to carry

Index of Exhibits to Be Offered at Trial

Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, exchanged with every other party at least three court days before the pretrial conference, and submitted with one extra copy to the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to all civil jury and court trials, other than cases on the Department 511 master calendar. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(b)

  1. The index itself
    • Every exhibit to be offered at trial, other than exhibits to be used for impeachment or rebuttal
    • Each discrete document or item broken out as its own separate exhibit
    • A description of each exhibit sufficient to tell it apart from the others
    • One extra copy of the index for the courtroom clerk
  2. Copies of the exhibits exchanged with the other parties
    • A copy of each indexed exhibit, exchanged with every other party at least three court days before the pretrial conference
    • A meet and confer with the other parties to eliminate duplicate exhibits
    • A stipulation to authenticity and admissibility wherever possible
  3. Redacted copies where medical, personal or consumer records are involved
    • Deletion of any information counsel and any self-represented party agree should not come into evidence
    • Deletion of insurance information
    • Clean copies prepared by the proponent for admission into evidence

Deposition and Discovery Excerpts to Be Used in Lieu of Live Testimony

Prepared by each party. Served only, submitted to every other party at least three court days before the pretrial conference, or three court days before trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to all civil jury and court trials, other than cases on the Department 511 master calendar. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(c)(2)

  1. The excerpts the proponent intends to use
    • The deposition excerpts to be used in lieu of live testimony
    • The requests for admission to be used in lieu of live testimony
    • The interrogatory responses to be used in lieu of live testimony
    • Any other discovery responses to be used in lieu of live testimony
    • A meet and confer with the other parties on the admissibility of the depositions, requests for admission, interrogatory responses and other discovery responses, and a stipulation to authenticity and admissibility wherever possible

Motions in Limine

Prepared by each party. Filed, filed in the clerk's office at least three court days before the pretrial conference, or three court days before trial if there is no pretrial conference. Applies to all civil jury and court trials, other than unlawful detainer, probate, family and juvenile cases, and other than cases on the Department 511 master calendar. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(e)(2)

  1. Each motion
    • A written motion
    • Consecutive numbering across the party's motions
    • One evidentiary issue per motion, with separate issues not combined

List of Witnesses to Be Called at Trial

Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, personally served on every other party three court days before the pretrial conference, or three court days before trial if none is scheduled, and presented in triplicate to the courtroom clerk at the conference. Applies to all civil jury and court trials, other than cases on the Department 511 master calendar. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(f)

  1. The witness list
    • All witnesses to be called at trial, expert and non-expert alike
    • An exception only for witnesses to be called solely for impeachment or in rebuttal
    • Three copies for the courtroom clerk

Proposed Jury Instructions

Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, personally served on every other party three court days before the pretrial conference, and submitted to the courtroom clerk at the conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to civil jury trials only. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(i)

  1. The set of proposed instructions
    • The full text of each proposed instruction
    • Each blank in a form instruction filled in
    • Proposed formatting showing which bracketed language in an instruction is included and which is excluded
    • Citations to the authorities an instruction rests on, for any instruction not taken verbatim from jury instructions approved by the Judicial Council of California

Form of Verdict or Special Verdict

Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, meet and confer at least three court days before the pretrial conference, and submit the form to the courtroom clerk at the conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to civil jury trials only. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(j)

  1. The verdict form submitted to the clerk
    • An agreed form of verdict or special verdict
    • Each side's own proposed form where no agreement was reached

Supplemental Voir Dire Questions and Proposed Juror Questionnaire

Prepared by each party. Brought to the conference, personally served on every other party three court days before the pretrial conference, and submitted to the courtroom clerk at the conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to civil jury trials. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(k)

  1. The voir dire and questionnaire submission
    • Supplemental voir dire questions
    • Any proposed written juror questionnaire

Originals of Depositions to Be Used at Trial

Prepared by each party. Lodged, lodged with the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to all civil jury and court trials, other than cases on the Department 511 master calendar. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(c)(1)

  1. The lodged originals
    • The original of every deposition to be used at trial
    • The edits worked out in the meet and confer
    • A good faith effort at resolving admissibility before lodging

Agreed Summary of the Case

Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, meet and confer in advance, and submit to the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to all civil jury and court trials, other than cases on the Department 511 master calendar. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(h)

  1. The agreed summary
    • A brief non-argumentative summary of the factual nature of the case
    • A brief statement of any claimed injuries and damages

Special Glossary of Terms

Prepared jointly. Brought to the conference, submitted in duplicate to the courtroom clerk at the pretrial conference, or on the first day of trial if no pretrial conference is scheduled. Applies to civil cases involving technical or unusual vocabulary. Alameda County Local Rule 3.35(l)

  1. The glossary
    • The technical or unusual terms to be included, agreed in a meet and confer
    • The definition of each term, agreed in a meet and confer
    • Two copies for the courtroom clerk

CEQA Trial Notebook

Prepared by plaintiff. Filed, filed with the designated CEQA department 14 days before the hearing date, or when the reply brief is filed, whichever is later. Applies to CEQA petitions only. Alameda County Local Rule 3.380, first paragraph

  1. Contents of the notebook
    • The petition
    • All answers
    • The briefs
    • Any motions set to be heard at trial
    • The statement of issues
    • Anything else the parties agree to include

Administrative Record Collections for the Trial Judge

Prepared by plaintiff. Lodged, delivered to the assigned CEQA department at the same time as the trial notebook, which is 14 days before the hearing date or when the reply brief is filed, whichever is later. Applies to CEQA petitions only. Alameda County Local Rule 3.380, second paragraph

  1. First collection, cited pages in context
    • Each page of the Administrative Record cited in any of the parties' briefs
    • The page immediately before each cited page
    • The page immediately after each cited page
    • A three-ring binder
  2. Second collection, the full documents
    • The entire document or chapter containing each cited page
    • A three-ring binder

Start with the joint documents

3 of these are prepared jointly: Form of Verdict or Special Verdict; Agreed Summary of the Case; Special Glossary of Terms. A joint document needs a meet and confer before it can be filed, so it sets the real deadline even though the filing date is the same as everything else.

When each one is due

Most of these do not run off the trial date. They run off the pretrial conference, which the court sets, and counting back from trial instead is the commonest way one gets missed. The full rule list for Alameda County carries every rule with its quoted text, and the trial countdown calculator computes the statewide CCP chain.

How these were built

Every rule was researched from the court’s own published text, then checked a second time by a reader told to assume a rule had been invented. Grouping those rules into the documents a court actually wants was a further pass, and an adversarial check corrected it: the commonest error was a document whose contents the first pass left empty while the rule enumerated them. Templates are generated in your browser, so nothing you type is sent anywhere. See methodology.

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