Marin County trial document templates
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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.
10 documents, 6 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Marin’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.
Download these as templates
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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- Settlement Conference Statement
- Issue Conference Statement
- Proposed Statement of the Case to Be Read to the Jury
- Proposed Voir Dire Questions
- Proposed Jury Instructions
- Proposed Verdict Forms
- Motions in Limine
- Opposition, Response, or Statement of Non-Opposition to Motions in Limine
- Courtesy Hard Copies of the Issue Conference Documents in an Indexed Binder
- Proposed Trial Exhibits
What each document has to carry
Settlement Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Lodged, at least 10 court days before the settlement conference. Applies to civil cases set for a mandatory settlement conference. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.14(B)
- Contents required by rule 2.14(B), in each party's own statement
- Everything California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380(c) requires of a settlement conference statement
- The four further items rule 2.14(B) adds on top of rule 3.1380(c)
- The settlement conference date, on the face sheet
- The trial date, on the face sheet
Issue Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 10 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)
- Contentions, evidentiary issues, stipulations and trial estimate (rule 2.15(C) items 1, 2, 3 and 6)
- A statement of the facts, law, and respective contentions of the parties regarding liability
- The same statement of facts, law and contentions regarding damages
- The same statement of facts, law and contentions regarding injuries, if applicable
- Unusual evidentiary or legal issues
- Matters appropriate for stipulation
- An estimate of the length of trial
- List of all witnesses to be called (rule 2.15(C)(4))
- The name of each witness to be called
- A brief statement of the anticipated testimony of each witness
- List of all exhibits to be introduced (rule 2.15(C)(5))
- A list of all exhibits to be introduced
- Completeness of the witness and exhibit lists (rule 2.15(C), closing paragraph)
- Every witness the party intends to call at trial
- Every exhibit the party intends to introduce at trial
Proposed Statement of the Case to Be Read to the Jury
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 10 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference; the document itself is jury specific. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)(2)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
Proposed Voir Dire Questions
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 10 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference; the document itself is jury specific. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)(3)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
Proposed Jury Instructions
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 10 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference; the document itself is jury specific. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)(4)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
Proposed Verdict Forms
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 10 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference; the document itself is jury specific. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)(5)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
Motions in Limine
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, not later than 10 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference, if any motions in limine are brought. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)(6)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
Opposition, Response, or Statement of Non-Opposition to Motions in Limine
Prepared by each party. Filed, not later than 5 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to any party answering a motion in limine in a case set for an Issue Conference. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(B)(6)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
Courtesy Hard Copies of the Issue Conference Documents in an Indexed Binder
Prepared by each party. Lodged, not later than 5 court days before the Issue Conference. Applies to all civil cases set for an Issue Conference. Marin County Rule, Civil 2.15(D)
- Contents of the indexed binder (rule 2.15(D))
- A courtesy hard copy of every document listed in rule 2.15(B)
- A courtesy hard copy of every document listed in rule 2.15(C)
- An index
- Each motion separately bookmarked
Proposed Trial Exhibits
Prepared by each party. Lodged, once the case has been assigned to a trial department, unless the trial judge instructs otherwise. Applies to all civil trials. Marin County Rule, General 1.51(B)(15)
The county rule requires this document and does not say what goes in it. That is the rule’s silence, not a gap here. Your department’s order is where the contents will be.
When each one is due
Most of these do not run off the trial date. They run off the issue conference, which the court sets, and counting back from trial instead is the commonest way one gets missed. The full rule list for Marin 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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