Law Alert! Concordance Table: California Rules of Court Reordered and Renumbered Effective January 1, 2007!

There are nearly 1,000 California Rules of Court and many of them are reordered and renumbered effective January 1, 2007. CEB's "Old-to-New" concordance table (pdf) lists the old Rule (including subsections), the corresponding new Rule (including subsections), a brief publisher's note, and the title of the new Rule or section of the Rule. The "New-to-Old" concordance table (pdf) lists the new Rule and then the old.

CEB book updates published between now and December 1, 2006, will contain citations to both the old and the new Rules of Court; updates published in December, 2006 and afterward will contain citations to the new Rules.

A brief look at the New Rules

Amendments Adopted October 20, 2006 (pdf)

Other resources

The new Rules are in numerical order and grouped into ten titles:

• Title 1.     Rules Applicable to All Courts (contains all repeating definitions; Rules 1.1-1.150)
• Title 2.     Trial Court Rules (Rules 2.1-2.1100)
• Title 3.     Civil Rules (Rules 3.1-3.2120)
• Title 4.     Criminal Rules (essentially unchanged; Rules 4.1-4.601))
• Title 5.     Family and Juvenile Rules (Rules 5.1-5.830)
• Title 6.     [Reserved] - replaces the pre-2007 appellate rules
• Title 7.     Probate Rules (Rules 7.1-7.1060)
• Title 8.     Appellate Rules (Rules 8.1-8.1125)
• Title 9.     Rules on Law Practice, Attorneys, and Judges (Rules 9.1-9.61)
• Title 10.   Judicial Administration Rules (formerly Title 6; Rules 10.1-1030).

The 10 titles are followed by the Standards of Judicial Administration, the Code of Judicial Ethics, the Ethics Standards of Neutral Arbitrators in Contractual Arbitrations, and a set of Appendixes. The Standards of Judicial Administration have also been reordered and renumbered; they are now referred to as "standards," not "sections."

Other resources: The new rules and concordance tables appear on the Judicial Council website, http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/rules/reorg.htm