LOCAL CIVIL RULE 77 - DISTRICT COURTS AND CLERKS

LR77.1  Conference In Chambers - Notice
LR77.2  Sessions of Court
LR77.3W  Administrative Divisions

LR77.1  Conference In Chambers - Notice

        Except as to applications normally considered and acted upon ex parte, before any attorney or party shall confer, or arrange to confer, with a judge of this court in chambers relative to a matter then pending before the judge, he or she shall first give notice of the date and hour of the proposed conference to opposing counsel, or if counsel is unknown, to the opposing party, and shall satisfy the judge that this has been done.

LR77.2  Sessions of Court

        The court shall be in continuous session on all business days through the year for transacting judicial business. [Amended June 28, 2002]

LR77.3W  Administrative Divisions

        For the purpose of administration of the business of the court, the following divisions shall be established in the Western District of Louisiana:

ALEXANDRIA DIVISION consisting of the parishes of Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, and Winn.

LAKE CHARLES DIVISION consisting of the parishes of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, Jefferson Davis, and Vernon.

MONROE DIVISION consisting of the parishes of Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas, Union, and West Carroll.

LAFAYETTE-OPELOUSAS DIVISION consisting of the parishes of Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, Saint Mary, and Vermilion.

SHREVEPORT DIVISION consisting of the parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Red River, Sabine, and Webster.