EXHIBIT A – Eighteenth Judicial Circuit Courts

2025 Admin Order 25-08

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EXCERPT: “WHEREAS Chief Justice Charles T. Canady issued AOSC20-23 which provides for case management of all civil cases and requiring the judicial circuits to evaluate the type of cases and to set forth case management deadlines in each case according to the guidelines provided herein. WHEREAS, the Florida Rules of General Practice and Judicial Administration, Rule 2.250, establishes reasonable time standards for the completion of cases in the trial courts. (Open AO for more information.)”

Additional Information:

2013 Admin Order 13-17-s

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WHEREAS, mediation is required in certain residential foreclosures pursuant to the terms of Administrative Order No. 12-25-S; and WHEREAS, many defendants in those cases are not represented by counsel and are unfamiliar with the mediation process; and WHEREAS, Seminole County Legal Aid has received a grant to assist unrepresented defendants in the foreclosure process; and WHEREAS, a number of lawyers have offered to assist unrepresented defendants on a limited basis pro bono; NOW THEREFORE, in order to facilitate the efficient operation of the administration of justice, and pursuant to the authority vested in me as Chief Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida under Florida Rule of Judicial Administration 2.215,

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that any attorney wishing to represent a defendant pro bono during the mediation process in a residential mortgage foreclosure case regardless of whether the attorney is referred by a program run by lawyer referral, legal aid, or legal services program or on the lawyer’s own volition shall file a limited notice of appearance in the form attached as Exhibit A and serve copies on the parties and the assigned mediator. When the notice of limited appearance is filed the attorney must attend the mediation session unless allowed to withdraw by the court. When the mediation process is complete the attorney may file a notice of termination of representation and have no further duties in the case.

DONE and ORDERED this 3rd day of April 2013

2013 Admin Order 13-16-s

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It has come to the attention of the court that the Clerk of this Court has been asked to include in the summons packet for residential mortgage foreclosures information about mediation that is outdated and incorrect in view of the adoption of Administrative Order No. 12-25-S. The court finds that for the benefit of the clerk and the parties that a standard notice in lieu of all others for those cases should be required by the court.

It is, therefore, ORDERED and ADJUDGED that the Clerk of this Court include the Notice to Homeowner Defendants attached hereto as Exhibit A in the summons packet in every residential mortgage foreclosure case in Seminole County, Florida, to the exclusion of any other notice regarding mediation in those cases. Any other notice furnished by any other entity is to be discarded.

DONE and ORDERED this 1st day of April 2013