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Pursuant to Local Rule 16-2, lead trial counsel are required to meet and confer in person. The Court expects strict compliance with Local Rule 16-2. No later than 7 days prior to the Final Pretrial Conference, counsel shall file with the Court a joint set of jury instruction on which there is agreement.

The Central District of California encompasses seven counties: Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura, stretching from the coast of California eastward to the Nevada and Arizona borders.

Central District of California Local Rule 23-3 provides: Within 90 days after service of a pleading purporting to commence a class action . . . the proponent of the class shall file a motion for certification that the action is maintainable as a class action, unless otherwise ordered by the Court.

Central District of California Local Rule 7-9 requires an opposing party to file an opposition to any motion at least 21 days prior to the date designated for hearing the motion. L.R. 7-9.

Central District of California Local Rule 7-3 requires “counsel contemplating the filing of any motion shall first contact opposing counsel to discuss thoroughly, preferably in person, the substance of the contemplated motion and any potential resolution.

Local Rule 7-3 states, in relevant part: [Unless otherwise provided for in these Rules], counsel contemplating the filing of any motion shall first contact opposing counsel to discuss thoroughly, preferably in person, the substance of the contemplated motion and any potential resolution.

RULE 16.2 COURT ANNEXED MEDIATION (1) Definitions. Mediation is a supervised settlement conference presided over by a qualified, certified, and neutral mediator, or anyone else whom the parties agree upon to serve as a mediator, to promote conciliation, compromise and the ultimate settlement of a civil action.

C. Pursuant to Local Rule 16-2, lead trial counsel are required to meet and confer in person. The Court expects strict compliance with Local Rule 16-2. No later than 7 days prior to the Final Pretrial Conference, counsel shall file with the Court a joint set of jury instruction on which there is agreement.