Solano 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.
3 documents, 18 required sections, taken from Superior Court of California, County of Solano’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
- Trial Conference Statement
- CEQA Trial Notebook
What each document has to carry
Settlement Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, as required by California Rules of Court, rule 3.1380(c), for the Mandatory Settlement Conference; the local rule fixes no separate date and only adds required content. Applies to all civil cases set for a Mandatory Settlement Conference. Solano County Local Rule 4.9(c)
- Additional content Solano requires in the rule 3.1380(c) statement
- A statement of the factual and legal contentions in dispute
- A list of all special damages
- Pertinent medical reports
- Other expert reports
- The pictorial and documentary evidence anticipated at trial
- A high and low estimate of the verdict range
- The highest previous offer and the lowest previous demand
Trial Conference Statement
Prepared by each party. Filed and served, at least ten court days before the date set for the Trial Conference. Applies to all civil trials. Solano County Local Rule 4.10(b)
- Assembly of the statement: tabs, dividers, and the optional cover sheet
- Dividers or tabs between each of the fifteen required items
- (1) Nature of the case and the statement read to the jury panel
- A statement of the nature of the case
- A summary of each party's allegations and supporting facts
- An agreed-upon statement of the case to be read to the jury panel, if a jury has been requested by any party
- (2) Change in the estimated length of trial
- An explanation of any developments since the trial setting that affect the estimated length of trial
- How the estimated length of trial should be changed as a result
- (3) Non-expert witnesses
- The names of any non-expert witnesses who may be called at trial, except for impeachment or rebuttal
- A concise statement of the anticipated testimony of each non-expert witness
- A time estimate for testimony, including direct and cross-examination
- (4) Expert witnesses
- The names and expertise of any expert witnesses who may be called at trial, except for impeachment or rebuttal
- A concise statement of the anticipated testimony of each expert witness
- A time estimate for testimony, including direct and cross-examination
- Any narrative report the expert provided, attached to the statement
- (5) Unavailable witnesses whose testimony comes in by deposition
- A list of all witnesses who are unavailable and whose testimony will be presented by deposition
- The facts supporting that unavailability
- (6) Documents, exhibits, blowups, and photographs
- A list of all documents, exhibits, blowups, and/or photographs that the party expects to offer at trial, except for impeachment or rebuttal
- Documents identified by page number or Bates-stamp number as applicable
- Photographs identified separately
- (7) Deposition, interrogatory, and admission excerpts, in column form
- A specific list in column form of all portions of depositions, answers to interrogatories, and responses to requests for admissions that the party expects to offer at trial, except for impeachment or rebuttal
- All portions of depositions identified by page and line
- Written discovery identified by the type of request and the response number
- (8) Anticipated evidentiary disputes
- A specific list of all anticipated evidentiary disputes, with citation to authority
- (9) Anticipated non-evidentiary disputes
- A specific list of all anticipated non-evidentiary disputes, with citation to authority
- (10) Requested jury instructions and verdict forms
- All requested jury instructions and verdict forms, in compliance with the California Rules of Court
- Each instruction typed in full
- Instructions numbered consecutively
- All blanks filled in by the submitting attorney
- A decision made as to all CACI alternatives
- One copy to the court with citations to authority and with given, refused, and withdrawn boxes
- One clean copy to the court carrying neither the citations nor the boxes
- (11) Motions in limine
- Copies of all in limine motions that the party expects to submit at trial
- Each in limine motion numbered consecutively by that party
- (12) Stipulations
- All stipulations requested or proposed at trial
- (13) Interpreters
- A statement as to whether there are any witnesses that need an interpreter
- The name of the interpreter
- The language that must be interpreted
- (14) Agreed jury instructions
- A list of all agreed-upon jury instructions
- (15) Disputed jury instructions
- A list of disputed jury instructions
CEQA Trial Notebook
Prepared by petitioner. Filed, fourteen days before the date of the hearing. Applies to CEQA mandate actions only. Solano County Local Rule 3.18(h), in Rule 3 (Civil Cases), under the heading Mandate Actions Arising Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
- Contents of the trial notebook
- The petition
- The answer or answers
- The briefs
- Any motions set to be heard at trial
- The statement of issues
- Anything else the parties agree on or the court orders
When each one is due
Most of these do not run off the trial date. They run off the trial conference (local rule 4.10). the court's civil setting guide and local rules 4.2(a) and 4.8(c) call the same event a "trial management conference.", which the court sets, and counting back from trial instead is the commonest way one gets missed. The full rule list for Solano 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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