
Magistrate Judge
Laurel Beeler
San Francisco Courthouse, Courtroom B – 15th Floor450 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102
Please click the link below to join webinars (public hearings). If you are a case participant, you will join as an attendee, then you will be brought into the proceeding by court staff.
https://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1614698626?pwd=eXlQRThFajBjT0tieVBaYWpjMjFodz09
Webinar ID: 161 469 8626
Password: 546984
Joining a Webinar by Phone or Other Connection
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are a case participant (attorney, party, witness, or other person who will actively participate in the hearing), it is strongly recommended that you join Zoom using the Zoom application rather than by a telephone connection. If you must appear by telephone, the numbers posted for each judge are for the public and are listen-only, so you will need to contact the Courtroom Deputy (CRD) at least one business day before the hearing to request a Zoom invitation (which will be sent via email) in order to join the hearing as a case participant.
Local telephone dial-in:
US: +1 (669) 254-5252 or +1 (646) 828-7666
International numbers available: https://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/u/advFLxrTkx
H.323/SIP room system (Polycom/Tandberg/Cisco/etc.):
H.323: 161.199.138.10 (US West) or 161.199.136.10 (US East)
SIP: 1614698626@sip.zoomgov.com
Joining Non-Public Hearings (Settlement Conferences, etc.)
The court will use Zoom Meetings (as opposed to Zoom Webinars) for settlement conferences and other non-public hearings. To join a meeting, click on the link below. You will initially enter a “waiting room” and will be admitted into the meeting by court staff.
Join ZoomGov Meeting
https://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1604641326?pwd=MlBSazlPWU9WUERaYktmaG9OSnZZZz09
Meeting ID: 160 464 1326
Passcode: 106809
Join by Phone:
(669) 254 5252 US (San Jose)
Find your local number: https://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/u/aRANolBV0
Join by SIP
1604641326@sip.zoomgov.com
Join by H.323
161.199.138.10 (US West)
161.199.136.10 (US East)
Please review this important guidance on participating in a Zoom Webinar or Meeting.
View Judge Beeler’s Schedule of Upcoming Proceedings…
View Scheduling Notes
Criminal Motions Hearings | Thursdays | 10:30 a.m. |
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Civil Motions Hearings | Thursdays | 9:30 a.m. |
Civil Case-Management Conferences | Thursdays | 11:00 a.m. |
Criminal Case-Management Conferences | Thursdays | 10:30 a.m. |
Calendar Clerk & Courtroom Deputy | Elaine Kabiling lbcrd@cand.uscourts.gov | 415-522-3140 |
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Civil Case Docketing & Docket Corrections | See SF Civil Docketing | |
Criminal Case Docketing | ||
Case terminal digits 0, 1, 4-6: | Lori Murray | 415-522-2093 |
Case terminal digits 2, 3, 7-9: | Mark Jenkins | 415-522-2042 |
Chambers | 415-522-4660 | |
Email for Proposed Orders: | LBpo@cand.uscourts.gov | |
Email for PDF Follow-Ups and Criminal Docket Corrections: | Felicia_Brown@cand.uscourts.gov (Civil) CRIMpdf@cand.uscourts.gov (Criminal) | |
Media Liaison | ||
For all media inquiries: | media@cand.uscourts.gov | 415-522-4051 |
Courtesy/Chambers Copy Requirements
The submission of chambers copies is often required for electronically filed documents. Whereas the local rules state whether and how soon chambers copies must be submitted, judges’ individual standing orders sometimes create additional requirements and may differ from the local rules in other particulars. If they are not in agreement, these orders supersede the local rules.
View general information requirements for courtesy/chambers copies under the local rules.
The pertinent parts of Magistrate Judge Beeler’s standing orders are set forth below:
Parties must lodge a paper “Chambers” copy of any filing unless another format makes more sense (such as for spreadsheets, pictures, or exhibits that are better lodged electronically). Paper copies must be printed on both sides and three-hole punched, and they must be the electronically filed copies with the PACER/ECF-generated header (with the case number, docket number, date, and ECF page number). Exhibits must be tabbed.
Parties do not need to submit copies of certificates of service, certificates of interested entities or persons, consents or declinations to the court’s jurisdiction, stipulations that do not require a court order (see Civil Local Rule 6-1), or notices of appearance or substitution of counsel.
Please read Civil Local Rule 79-5 regarding the requirements for filing documents under seal and providing copies.
Delivery Address
United States District CourtOffice of the Clerk
450 Golden Gate Ave, 16th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
About Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler
United States Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler was appointed in 2010. She has presided as a trial and settlement judge over hundreds of civil cases, including intellectual property, employment, civil rights, and commercial disputes.
Judge Beeler was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District, prosecuting complex white-collar cases with parallel civil components. She was the Office’s Professional Responsibility Officer and Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division. She was a law clerk to the Honorable Cecil F. Poole, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Civil Appeals Division Chief at the Ninth Circuit’s Office of Staff Attorneys. She trained as a mediator with the Northern District’s ADR Program, the Federal Judicial Center, and Harvard Law School.
Judge Beeler is a member of the Ninth Circuit Magistrate Judge Executive Board and the Ninth Circuit Criminal Case Committee and is one of four national judicial liaisons to the U.S. Department of Justice/Office of Defender Services Joint Electronic Technology Working Group. She chairs the Northern District’s Criminal Practice Committee and implemented the court’s reentry and diversion courts.
Judge Beeler was President of the Federal Bar Association, co-chair of the Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit, a board member of the Bar Association of San Francisco (“BASF”), and a member of the Ninth Circuit’s Jury Trial Improvement Committee. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Edward J. McFetridge American Inn of Court. In 2006, Judge Beeler received the Northern District Judicial Conference’s Public Service Award. She was named one of The Recorder’s 2012 Women Leaders in Law. She received BASF’s Barristers Choice Award in 2015 and the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association’s Magistrate Judge of the Year award in 2018.
Judge Beeler taught Civil Trial Practice at U.C. Berkeley School of Law and Criminal Procedure at U.C. Hastings College of the Law. She led rule-of-law projects in Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Philippines, Jordan, Ukraine, Turkey, and Thailand.
Judge Beeler graduated with honors from the University of Washington School of Law, where she was Order of the Coif and an Articles Editor on the Washington Law Review. She received her A.B. with honors from Bowdoin College.