Los Angeles local civil form — Information Sheet Assignment to the Personal Injury Hub Court’s Resolvelawla.com (LASC CIV 290-INFO)

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INFORMATION SHEET ASSIGNMENT TO THE PERSONAL INJURY HUB COURT’S RESOLVELAWLA.COM MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s Personal Injury Hub Courts offer qualified parties the opportunity to participate in the Resolvelawla.com Mandatory Settlement Conference Program. The program is hosted by the Beverly Hills Bar Association, is staffed by volunteer attorneys from the: • American Board of Trial Advocates • Association of Southern California Defense Counsel • Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles

and is supervised by a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge. Participants will be offered a free 3-hour virtual settlement conference conducted by a combination of a plaintiff’s and a defendant’s attorney.

Because the program is staffed by volunteers, the Court restricts assignments to the program to cases indicating a likelihood of settling. Historically, this has meant that only cases ready for trial

would be assigned to the program. But, recognizing that in some cases expenditures made in preparing for trial become an impediment to settling, the Court now offers cases at any stage of their development to be assigned to the program, AS LONG AS COUNSEL DECLARE THAT THEIR CASE IS AMENABLE TO SETTLING and make an ex parte application for an order assigning their case to an MSC.

The program is still limited to cases with:

• one Plaintiff’s attorney and • one Defendant’s attorney

(meaning there can be two or more plaintiffs or two or more defendants, so long as all plaintiffs are represented by one attorney and all defendants are represented by one attorney. Cases with cross- complaints against third parties are not eligible for the program.).

The exparte application should be made on form SCLAC CIV 290, available on the

Court’s website.

Both counsel must appear at the hearing on the ex parte application. The Court has absolute

discretion as to whether to send the case to the program.

Counsel are directed to the Superior Court of Los Angeles County’s Personal Injury Hub

Court’s 6th Amended Standing Order dated June 23, 2021 for further details and orders.

SCLAC CIV 290-INFO NEW 04/26 INFORMATION SHEET Page 1 of 1For Mandatory Use ASSIGNMENT TO THE PERSONAL INJURY HUB COURT’S RESOLVELAWLA.COM MANDATORY SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE PROGRAM