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California Civil Procedure Update — California MCLE, 3 hours

California Civil Procedure Update covers current California rules, statutes, deadlines, and litigation workflow. Delivery, credential, and regulatory-credit eligibility are stated on the course page.

Professional training or exam-preparation material. No CE/MCLE/CPE credit hours are issued.

Course at a glance

Level
Intermediate
Estimated time
3 hours
Prerequisite
Review the licensing eligibility and credit status shown on this page before enrolling.

Skills you will practice

  • Explain and apply §1 How to Use an Update Course.
  • Explain and apply §2 Service of Process — the Framework and the Coming Reform.
  • Explain and apply §3 Pleading Practice — Demurrers, Amendments, and the Meet-and-Confer Culture.
  • Explain and apply §4 Motion Practice — the Calendar Arts.
  • Explain and apply §5 Part I Self-Check.

Learning objectives

  • Explain and apply §1 How to Use an Update Course.
  • Explain and apply §2 Service of Process — the Framework and the Coming Reform.
  • Explain and apply §3 Pleading Practice — Demurrers, Amendments, and the Meet-and-Confer Culture.
  • Explain and apply §4 Motion Practice — the Calendar Arts.
  • Explain and apply §5 Part I Self-Check.

Assessment and timing

Knowledge check plus 2 final exam versions.

Passing score: 70%.

Final timing: 1 minute per question.

Hands-on practice

Applied course exercises

Use the course rules in practical scenarios and exercises drawn from the published syllabus.

  • §3 Pleading Practice — Demurrers, Amendments, and the Meet-and-Confer Culture
  • §4 Motion Practice — the Calendar Arts
  • §5.1 Default Practice — the Update Era's Quiet Risk Zone
  • §5.3 Writs and Interlocutory Review — When the Update Matters Mid-Case
  • §5.4 Case Management and the Complex Courts — the Supervised Track
  • §5.5 Arbitration Practice — the Update Era's Enforcement Battles

Full syllabus

Part I — Pleading, Service, and Motion Practice: the Current State

  • §1 How to Use an Update Course
  • §2 Service of Process — the Framework and the Coming Reform
  • §3 Pleading Practice — Demurrers, Amendments, and the Meet-and-Confer Culture
  • §4 Motion Practice — the Calendar Arts
  • §5 Part I Self-Check
  • §5.1 Default Practice — the Update Era's Quiet Risk Zone
  • §5.2 Venue, Forum, and Reclassification — the Sorting Rules
  • §5.3 Writs and Interlocutory Review — When the Update Matters Mid-Case
  • §5.4 Case Management and the Complex Courts — the Supervised Track
  • §5.5 Arbitration Practice — the Update Era's Enforcement Battles
  • §5.6 Provisional Remedies — the Front-End Toolkit's Current State
  • §5.7 Unlawful Detainer Adjacency — the Specialized Track's Update Notes
  • §5.9 Plain-Language Translations and the Part I Recall Bench
  • §5.10 Limitations and Tolling — the Clock Before the Case
  • §5.11 Costs and Fee Motions — the Judgment's Second Act
  • §5.12 Judgment Enforcement — the Rights the Verdict Only Begins
  • §5.13 The Appearance Alternatives — Pro Hac, Association, and Limited Scope in Litigation
  • §5.14 Rapid-Recall Bench — Part I Complete
  • §5.15 The Amendment-Watch Shelf — Where Next Year's Changes Will Come From

Part II — The Discovery Revolution and the Trial Updates

  • §6 Initial Disclosures — California's Quiet Revolution, Now Permanent
  • §7 The Discovery Act's Working Updates
  • §8 Jury Selection in Civil Trials — Section 231.7 Arrives
  • §9 Remote Proceedings, Court Technology, and the AI Rules
  • §10 Part II Self-Check
  • §10.1 The Disclosure File, Worked — a 2016.090 Compliance Build
  • §10.2 The ESI Protocol — Anatomy of the Stipulation
  • §10.3 Expert Discovery — the Exchange Machinery's Current Practice
  • §10.4 The Sanctions Ladder — Current Culture, Worked
  • §10.5 Part I-II Supplement Drills
  • §10.6 The Trial-Document Bench — Limine Through Verdict
  • §10.7 Post-Trial Motions — the Jurisdictional Minefield
  • §10.8 Protective Orders and Privilege Logs — the Confidentiality Machinery
  • §10.9 Summary Judgment — the Worked File
  • §10.10 Supplement Drills — Round Two
  • §10.11 The Deposition Craft Bench — Current-Practice Mechanics
  • §10.12 Referees and Discovery Masters — Outsourced Supervision
  • §10.13 Requests for Admission — the Underused Weapon, Worked
  • §10.14 Interrogatory Craft — Form, Special, and the Declaration Arts
  • §10.15 Subpoenas and Third-Party Discovery — the Outsider's Rules
  • §10.16 The Discovery Plan — One Page That Runs the Case
  • §10.17 Rapid-Recall Bench — Part II Complete
  • §10.18 The Motion to Compel, Worked — One File From Deficiency to Order

Part III — The Update-Year Bench: Settlement Tools, Deadlines, and Drills

  • §11 Section 998 and the Settlement Machinery — Current Practice
  • §12 The Deadline Bench — the Figures on One Page
  • §13 Case Bench — Five Update-Era Files
  • §14 Course Review and the Update Habit
  • §14.1 The 998 Numbers Bench — the Arithmetic at Offer Time
  • §14.2 The Appellate Timing Bench — the Clocks Above the Case
  • §14.3 Rapid-Recall Bench — the Course in Twenty Answers
  • §14.4 Supplement Drills
  • §14.5 Second Case Bench — Three Update-Era Files
  • §14.6 The January Protocol — the Update System, Worked
  • §14.7 Working Glossary
  • §14.8 Third Case Bench — the Clocks in Collision
  • §14.9 Exam Craft and the Course's Close
  • §14.10 Final Drills
  • §14.11 Spot-Issue Bench — Twelve Two-Sentence Scenarios
  • §14.12 The Catalog Connections and the January Memo, Modeled
  • §14.13 Last Drills
  • §14.14 The Course's Last Page — Procedure as the Practice's Operating System
  • §14.15 Closing Drills
  • §14.16 The Client's Procedure Briefing — Translating the Case's Path
  • §14.17 Absolute Final Drill
  • §14.18 One More Bench — Three Micro-Cases on the Verified Changes

Sample from Part I

Part I — Pleading, Service, and Motion Practice: the Current State §1 How to Use an Update Course An update course earns its hours differently than a doctrine course, and the reader deserves the method stated. What this course does: fixes the current state of California civil procedure's most-moved pieces — the discovery revolution of Part II being the decade's headline — with the changes' effective dates, their practice consequences, and the stable frameworks around them; what it cannot do: freeze a moving field, which is why every specific carries this course's standing instruction — verify current text before relying — and why the meta's flags mark the provisions most likely to have moved again by the time any given reader arrives. The reading strategy: each section states the framework (stable), the recent change (dated), and the practice adjustment (actionable) — and the Part III bench compresses the whole course into the deadline charts and drills a litigator actually consults. The honest frame for the update genre, in this catalog's tradition: the dangerous practitioner is not the one who missed a change but the one who is confident about a provision that moved — the update course's real product is calibrated confidence, meaning current knowledge plus the habit of checking, and both halves are the curriculum. §2 Service of Process — the Framework and the Coming Reform The framework, stable for decades: personal service as the preferred method; substituted service on a competent household member or apparent person-in-charge after reasonable diligence (the usual three attempts), with mailing and its ten-day completion rule; service by mail with acknowledgment; publication as the last resort on a proper showing; and the corporate channels through designated agents and officers. The change on the calendar: the SPARE Act (AB 747), effective January 1, 2027, rewrites the proof culture of personal and substituted service — requiring documented service attempts on different days and times, time-stamped photographic evidence and GPS data supporting proofs of service, registration disclosures for process servers, county registries, and expanded ability to challenge improper service — a legislative response to sewer-service abuses, and a compliance project for every litigation practice that serves anyone. The practice adjustments to begin now: engage process servers whose technology already produces the documentation the Act will require (the vendors moved before the statute); audit proof-of-service templates against the coming standards; calendar the effective date for a procedures review; and treat default judgments built on thin proofs as the Act's retroactive risk zone — the challenge-friendly regime will read old proofs with new eyes. The stable disciplines that never moved: the proof of service as a filed document with jurisdictional consequences, the quiet-title and default contexts where service defects surface years later, and the §1 method applied — framework, change, adjustment — which this section models for the rest of the course. §3 Pleading Practice — Demurrers, Amendments, and the Meet-and-Confer Culture The framework: California remains a fact-pleading jurisdiction — ultimate facts stating a cause of action, the demurrer

Available in these packages

California MCLE 25-Hour PackageCalifornia Civil Procedure Update

Course FAQ

What will California Civil Procedure Update cover?

The planned syllabus covers current California rules, statutes, deadlines, and litigation workflow with California-specific explanations and practical applications.

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