A. General Provisions 1. Communications with Chambers 2. Motions 3. Pretrial Procedures 4. Proposed Orders and Judgments 5. Redactions and Filing Under Seal 6. Pro Se Parties 7. Participation by Junior Attorneys

Under Seal in Civil and Miscellaneous Matters. i. Sealing/Redactions Not Requiring Court Approval. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 5.2 describes sensitive information that must be redacted from public court filings without seeking prior permission from the Court. Such sensitive information includes: Social Security numbers; names of minor children; dates of birth; and financial account numbers. 7 Other information that should be treated with caution and may warrant a motion for approval of sealed or redacted filing includes: personal identifying numbers (PIN numbers); medical records, treatment and diagnosis; employment history; individual financial information; proprietary or trade secret information; personal home addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers; and information regarding an individual’s cooperation with the government. Sensitive information and information requiring caution must not be included in any document filed publicly on ECF unless such inclusion is necessary and relevant to the case. If such information must be included, personal identifiers must be partially redacted in accordance with the above-cited rules and policies in order to protect any privacy interest. ii. Sealing/Redaction Requiring Court Approval. Motions or letter-motions by represented parties for approval of sealed or redacted filings in civil and miscellaneous cases and the subject documents, including the proposed sealed document(s), must be filed electronically through the court’s ECF system in conformity with the Court’s Standing Order, 19-mc-00583 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 19, 2019), and ECF Rules & Instructions, section

(including pre-motion conferences with respect to discovery disputes) should be filed as letter-motions. Letter-motions must be filed via ECF in compliance with the S.D.N.Y. Local Rules and the S.D.N.Y. “Electronic Case Filing Rules and Instructions.” d. Motions for default judgment. A party wishing to obtain a default judgment must notify the Court by letter (copied to the party against which a default judgment is to be sought and filed on the ECF System) of its desire to seek a default judgment. The Court will enter an order directing the party as to whether evidentiary submissions will be required in connection with the motion. Default judgments will be granted only upon written motion with notice to Defendant(s) and their counsel, if known. A copy of the Clerk’s Certificate of Default, an affidavit or declaration in accordance with Local Civil Rule 55.2(a)(1), and proof of service of the Summons and Complaint, the Motion for Default Judgment, the Clerk’s Certificate of Default and the aforementioned affidavit or declaration must be attached to the Motion for Default Judgment, along with any other material the Court directs be included in the motion papers. The Motion for Default Judgment must also include the papers required by Local Civil Rule 7.1, including a memorandum of law, and must be accompanied by a proposed order detailing the proposed judgment to be entered. e. Motions for withdrawal or displacement of attorney of record in civil matters. An attorney who has appeared as attorney of record for a party in a civil matter may be relieved or displaced in accordance with Local Civil Rule 1.4. 5 f. Evidentiary support. Evidentiary support, in admissible form, of all factual assertions relied upon in support of or in opposition to a motion must be filed and served with the moving or opposition papers, as the case may be. Recitals in notices of motion, attorneys’ affirmations, assertions of material factual matters “on information and belief” and the like are generally insufficient to establish factual matters. g. Briefing. Unless otherwise directed by the Court in the particular case, motions in civil matters must be briefed in accordance with the schedule set forth in Local Civil Rule 6.1. h. Memoranda of law. Unless prior permission has been granted, if filed by an attorney or prepared with a computer, memoranda of law in support of and in opposition to motions are limited to 8,750 words, and reply memoranda are limited to 3,500 words; if filed by a party who is not represented by an attorney and handwritten or prepared with a typewriter, briefs in support of and in response to a motion may not exceed 25 pages, and reply briefs may not exceed 10 pages. These limitations do not include the caption, any index, table of contents, table of authorities, signature blocks, or any required certificates, but do include material contained in footnotes or endnotes. If a brief is filed by an attorney or prepared with a computer, it must include a ce