[Adopted effective November 1, 1996; abrogated July 23, 2012]
2012 Advisory Committee’s Note to LR 16.7
Local Rule 16.7 is abrogated as redundant of Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(a), which allows the court to
schedule “one or more pretrial conferences . . . .” The rule number is reserved for possible future use.
1996 Advisory Committee’s Note to LR 16.7
LR 16.7 is designed to give Judges and Magistrate Judges maximum flexibility to schedule pretrial
conferences at any time to consider any of the subjects contemplated by Fed. R. Civ. P. 16.
