Local Civil Rule 5
                                    BRIEFS


    All briefs, declarations, affidavits, and other supporting written
documentation pertaining to trials, summary judgments motions, lower court
appeals and appeals from decisions of administrative agencies (except the
record transferred by the agency) and any other motions, and other documents
submitted for hearings, such as pre-trial position statements in domestic
cases, trial management reports, proposed findings of fact and conclusions of
law and judgments, motions and sentencing position statements in criminal
matters, and guardian ad litem reports (including criminal and domestic
relations), shall be served and filed in the cause.  Unless a party does not
have access to a computer or the internet, bench copies of all such documents,
as well as settlement position statements in civil and domestic cases, shall be
submitted electronically via the internet at http://motion.co.franklin.wa.us/.
Parties without access to a computer and the internet shall deliver bench
copies to the Court Administrator.  All bench copies must be submitted not
later than nine (9:00) o'clock a.m. one court day prior to the scheduled
hearing, proceeding or trial.  No bench copies, except settlement position
statements, shall be submitted to the Court unless prior thereto or
simultaneously therewith a copy thereof has been served upon or mailed to
opposing counsel.  All paper bench copies will be destroyed one (1) week after
the original date noted for hearing unless counsel requests copies be returned,
with return postage arranged, or unless Court Administration is advised of the
new hearing date.  When hearings are continued, the parties shall amend the
hearing date associated with all bench copies submitted electronically.

    Bench copies of the following documents should not be electronically submitted:
Notices of hearings, notes for dockets, transmittal letters, proposed
statements of defendant on plea of guilty, proposed judgments and sentences and
proofs of service (unless service is at issue).


[Adopted effective April 1, 1986; Amended effective September 1, 2000;
September 1, 2001; September 1, 2002; September 1, 2003; September 1, 2005,
September 1, 2007, September 1, 2009, September 1, 2011, September 1, 2012]