Sophia Choi

Judge Choi permits demonstratives, digital slides, and other visual aids in opening or closing only after party stipulation and court approval; proposed visual aids must be disclosed and opening-use requests made by motion in limine.

No demonstrative evidence, digital slides presentation, or other visual aid ... will be allowed without prior stipulation of the parties and court approval.

Riverside Local Rule 3401 requires trial counsel to exchange witness and exhibit lists no later than 14 days before trial; undisclosed non-impeachment exhibits may be excluded.

Not later than 14 days before the date set for trial ... counsel for all parties shall exchange ... A list of all exhibits that the party intends to introduce at trial

Riverside requires exhibits to be numbered in advance and page-numbered, and encourages counsel to exchange exhibits electronically in a standardized format.

Counsel are encouraged to exchange their exhibits electronically in a standardized format.

A party offering an electronic sound or sound-and-video recording must provide the court and opposing parties a transcript and provide opposing parties a duplicate of the recording.

the party must provide to the court and to opposing parties a transcript of the electronic recording and provide opposing parties with a duplicate of the electronic recording

An exhibit must be admitted by the judge before it may be used in the case.

The judge must to allow you to admit the exhibit as evidence in order for you to use it in your case.

California courts should permit remote participation in covered civil proceedings, subject to the statute, local rules, and controlling orders.

courts should permit parties to appear remotely at conferences, hearings, and proceedings in civil cases consistent with Code of Civil Procedure section 367.75

Covered civil parties and witnesses may appear remotely, and the court may conduct proceedings in whole or in part using remote technology.

that party or witness may appear remotely and the court may conduct conferences, hearings, and proceedings, in whole or in part, through the use of remote technology

Court proceedings may not be photographed, recorded, or broadcast except as Rule 1.150 permits.

Except as provided in this rule, court proceedings may not be photographed, recorded, or broadcast.

In expedited jury trials, parties may use slides, electronic presentations, projections, exhibit notebooks, and other methods approved at the pretrial conference.

the parties may present summaries and may use photographs, diagrams, slides, electronic presentations, overhead projections, individual notebooks of exhibits for submission to the jurors, or other innovative methods of presentation approved at the pretrial conference

Voluntary expedited jury trial submissions must identify party agreements concerning electronic presentations and other proposed presentation methods.

Any agreements of the parties to use photographs, diagrams, slides, electronic presentations, overhead projections, notebooks of exhibits, or other methods of presenting information to the jury