Rule 4.017 - Scheduling Conflicts(1) Attorneys are responsible for keeping their calendars and for scheduling cases appropriately. An attorney who schedules a trial in two or more courtrooms on the same day shall be responsible to communicate the scheduling conflict to the assigned judges at the trial readiness call or within five days of trial if no trial call has been scheduled. Attorneys are responsible for resolving their scheduling conflicts. If the scheduling conflict involves in-custody defendants, 60-day trials, or other scenarios whereby case priority is not apparent, attorneys shall inform the assigned judges, who will then confer and set the priority case. Under no circumstances, however, will the setting of a priority case by a judge relieve an attorney from moving to postpone any other case that cannot be tried as scheduled.(2) If the attorney does not have sufficient time to comply with subsection (1) of this rule or fails to comply, the attorney must appear on the matter at the earliest date on the court's docketing notices. The attorney will not leave that proceeding until it has been concluded or they have been released by the judge handling the matter. The attorney must notify the judge and the other attorneys in the second matter, as soon as possible but not later than twenty-four (24) hours before the conflicting time, of the reason for their inability to appear in the conflicting case at the time scheduled.Klamath Supp. L. R. 4.017
Amended effective 2/1/2024.