Local Mandatory Arbitration Rule 7.1
              REQUEST FOR TRIAL DE NOVO - CALENDAR - JURY DEMAND


   (a) Assignment of Trial Date.  If there is a request for a trial de novo, or
the case is otherwise removed from the Mandatory Arbitration calendar, the
Court will assign a trial date.

   (b)  Appeal Period -- Attorney Fees.  In any case in which a party makes a
motion for attorney fees pursuant to LMAR 6.1 (b), the 20-day period for appeal
shall not commence until the arbitrator has filed and served either the amended
award or the written denial thereof.

   (c)  Case Schedule.  Cases originally governed by a Case Schedule pursuant
to LCR 4, 4.1, or 4.1A will again become subject to a Case Schedule if a trial
de novo is requested.  Promptly after the request for trial de novo is filed,
the Court will mail to all parties a Notice of Trial Date together with an
Amended Case Schedule, which will govern the case until the trial de novo.  The
Amended Case Schedule will include the following deadlines:


SCHEDULE                                                          DUE DATE

1.  Plaintiff's Disclosure of Lay and Expert Witnesses            1 months
2.  Defendant's Disclosure of Lay and Expert Witnesses            3 months
3.  Disclosure of Plaintiff's Rebuttal Witnesses                  4 months
4.  Disclosure of Defendant's Rebuttal Witnesses                  5 months
5.  Discovery Cutoff (60 days prior to trial)                     5 ½ months
6.  Settlement Position Statement filed by all parties; last
    date for filing Statement of Arbitrability                    6 months
7.  Last Date for Hearing Dispositive Pretrial Motions            6 months
8.  Settlement Conference                                         6 ½ months
9.  Last Date for Filing and Serving Trial Management Report      7 months
10. Pretrial conference                                           7  months
11. Trial Memoranda, Motions in Limine, Jury Instructions         2 wks. to trial
12. Trial Date                                                    8 months


   (d) Jury Demand.  The appealing party may file and serve on the other party
or parties a jury demand at the same time as the request for a trial de novo.
The non-appealing party shall have 14 calendar days after the request for the
trial de novo is served on that party to file a jury demand.

   (e) Award to be Sealed.  The clerk shall seal any award if a trial de novo
is requested.


[Adopted Effective September 1, 1996; Amended Effective September 1, 1998;
September 1, 2000, September 1, 2003]