San Bernardino 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.
5 documents, 9 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino’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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- Initial Trial Setting Conference Statement (local form 13-09001-360)
- At Issue Memorandum
- Mandatory Settlement Conference Statement
- Motion in Limine
- Trial Readiness Conference Documents
What each document has to carry
Initial Trial Setting Conference Statement (local form 13-09001-360)
Prepared by not stated. Filed and served, no later than 10 days before the Initial Trial Setting Conference. Applies to civil cases in which the clerk sets an initial trial setting conference when the complaint is filed. SBSC Rule 411.1, fourth paragraph
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.
At Issue Memorandum
Prepared by not stated. Filed and served, no later than 15 days before the further trial setting conference. Applies to cases in which the court sets a further trial setting conference after the initial trial setting conference. SBSC Rule 411.1, sixth paragraph
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.
Mandatory Settlement Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Submitted to the court and served on each party, no later than five court days before the initial date set for the mandatory settlement conference. Applies to mediations and mandatory settlement conferences, which the court may order on dates set at the case management or trial setting conference. SBSC Rule 601, adopting Cal. Rules of Court, rule 3.1380; the statement deadline is rule 3.1380(c)
- Contents of the mandatory settlement conference statement
- A good faith settlement demand
- An itemization of economic and noneconomic damages by each plaintiff
- A good faith offer of settlement by each defendant
- A statement identifying and discussing in detail all facts and law pertinent to the issues of liability and damages involved in the case as to that party
Motion in Limine
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, filed with service completed at least 8 days before the trial readiness conference. Applies to all unlimited civil and complex cases in which a party moves in limine. SBSC Rule 411.2, third paragraph
- Declaration accompanying a motion to preclude mention or display of inadmissible and prejudicial matter in the presence of the jury
- A clear identification of the specific matter alleged to be inadmissible and prejudicial
- A representation that the subject of the motion was discussed with opposing counsel
- A representation that opposing counsel either indicated the matter will be mentioned or displayed in the presence of the jury before it is admitted in evidence, or refused to stipulate that it will not be mentioned or displayed unless and until it is admitted in evidence
- A statement of the specific prejudice that will be suffered by the moving party if the motion is not granted
- Where the motion seeks to make binding an answer given in response to discovery, the question and the answer, and a statement of why use of the answer for impeachment will not adequately protect the moving party against prejudice if evidence inconsistent with the answer is offered
Trial Readiness Conference Documents
Prepared by jointly where the parties can agree, otherwise each party submits its own. Brought to the conference, on the date set by the court for the trial readiness conference, when the parties and trial counsel appear and submit them. Applies to all unlimited civil and complex cases. SBSC Rule 411.2, second paragraph
- Any oppositions to motions in limine
- Any oppositions to motions in limine
- Proposed jury instructions
- Proposed jury instructions
- Proposed verdict forms
- Proposed verdict forms
- Witness and exhibit lists
- A witness list
- An exhibit list
- A statement of any stipulated facts
- A statement of any stipulated facts
- Proposed voir dire questions, a proposed juror questionnaire, or both
- Proposed voir dire questions, a proposed juror questionnaire, or both
- A short statement of the case to be read to the jury
- A short statement of the case to be read to the jury, if applicable
Start with the joint documents
One of these is prepared jointly: Trial Readiness Conference Documents. 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 trial readiness conference (trc), which the court sets, and counting back from trial instead is the commonest way one gets missed. The full rule list for San Bernardino 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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