A Maryland State Bar Association task force has issued a comprehensive Report and Proposed Recommendations calling for sweeping changes to improve the effectiveness of the state’s Business & Technology Case Management Program...more
A recent rule change has opened the door wider for litigants seeking to resolve their disputes in Maryland’s specialized Business and Technology Courts. It expands the number of scenarios in which cases can be moved to...more
The heavy burden of persuading the Commercial Division of New York State Supreme Court to seal court records containing sensitive business information could be eased under a proposed new rule.
In releasing the new rule for...more
A rule proposed last week would encourage the use of hyperlinking in documents that are electronically filed with the Commercial Division of New York State Supreme Court as a means of increasing the efficiency with which the...more
Under a new rule approved yesterday, justices in the Commercial Division of New York State Supreme Court for the first time will be expressly authorized to require parties to submit the direct testimony of their own witnesses...more
Joining nearly two dozen sister states across the country that already have established specialized business courts, Indiana’s Commercial Courts last week began accepting cases that will be subject to new rules designed to...more
Justices in the Commercial Division of New York State Supreme Court would be expressly authorized to require parties to submit the direct testimony of their own witnesses in affidavit form in non-jury trials and evidentiary...more
The New York Commercial Division celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015. In the last 20 years, we have watched the creation and development of business courts or commercial courts within state-trial-court civil systems. The...more
The Indiana Supreme Court this week established six commercial courts dedicated to resolving complex business disputes. In doing so, Indiana joins nearly two dozen states across the country that, since the early 1990s, have...more
New Jersey’s Complex Business Litigation Program just completed what by all accounts was a busy and successful initial year of operation. Following the national trend of establishing specialized business courts, New Jersey on...more
The rules governing practice in the Commercial Division of New York Supreme Court have undergone a number of important amendments, additions, clarifications and other modifications effective today....more
The Commercial Division of New York Supreme Court now has a trio of model case management order forms designed to facilitate both the efficient pursuit of discovery and the court’s supervision of that critical -- often costly...more
The second annual report on Iowa’s three-year Business Court Pilot Program reflects that the bench and bar thus far are highly satisfied with the experiment and strongly support making a specialized business court a permanent...more
Parties and counsel involved in disputes arising out of domestic arbitrations or home improvement contracts soon will have to clear heightened eligibility requirements before being able to proceed in the Commercial Division...more
Harried litigators scrambling to file papers in New York’s Commercial Division soon will have one more task to add to their pre-filing checklist: electronic bookmarking. Starting next month, each electronically-submitted...more
In the latest procedural innovation designed to facilitate increased efficiency in resolving business disputes, Rule 3 of the Rules of Practice for the Commercial Division has been amended to provide for this alternative...more