Filings
Do I Have To Serve Filings on Opposing Counsel?
Is Electronic Filing Required?
What Do I Do If My Electronic Document Is Too Large To File?
What Happens If I Need To File a Non-Documentary or Oversized Object?
What Do I Do If I Forget to Electronically Sign My Pleading, Motion, or Other Paper?
Are Graphical Signatures Permitted on Electronically Filed Documents?
How Do I File a Pleading, Motion, or Other Paper?
What Format Must Electronically Filed Documents Be In?
How Long Do I Have to Register as an ECF User Once I Enter an Appearance?
What Do I Do in an Emergency if I Can’t File a Document Electronically Using the Court’s ECF System?
Motion Practice
Can My Filing Contain More than One Pleading, Motion or other Paper?
What Time Must a Document be Electronically Filed By?
When Must I Meet and Confer with Opposing Counsel Before Filing My Motion?
What Must a Certificate of Conference Include?
What Motions Do Not Require a Certificate of Conference?
Do I Need to Submit a Proposed Order with My Motion?
Must I Include a Brief with My Motion or Response?
When is the Deadline to File a Response and Brief?
When is the Deadline to File a Reply Brief?
Will Oral Argument be held on a Motion?
What are the Page Limits for Briefs?
When Must a Brief Include a Table of Contents and Table of Authorities?
How Is a Continuance Obtained?
When is the Deadline for Filing a Bill of Costs?
What Must a Summary Judgment Motion and Response Include?
How Many Motions for Summary Judgment May be Filed?
Can a Document be Filed Under Seal?
What Happens to Sealed Documents After the Case is Finally Disposed Of?
Must Courtesy Copies be Submitted to the Presiding Judge?
How Do I Submit a Proposed Order to the Court?
Miscellaneous
Does the Northern District of Texas have Patent Rules?
When is Local Counsel Required?