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Maryland State Bar Association Proposes an Overhaul to Maryland’s Business & Technology Courts

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

New Maryland Rule Affords Broader Access to Business and Technology Court

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

Proposed Rule Would Promote Sealing New York Commercial Division Records Containing Sensitive Business Information

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

Proposed Rule Would Encourage Hyperlinking In Documents Electronically Filed In The New York Commercial Division

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

New Rule Encourages the Use of Direct Testimony Affidavits to Streamline Trials in the New York Commercial Division

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

Indiana’s New Commercial Courts Are Open for Business

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

Proposed Rule Would Promote the Use of Direct Testimony Affidavits in the New York Commercial Division

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

Spotlight on Business Courts

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

Joining a National Trend, Indiana Introduces Specialized Business Courts

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 Completes Its First Year

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

Host of Rule Changes Go Into Effect Today in the New York Commercial Division

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

Trio of Model Case Management Order Forms Now in Place in New York's Commercial Division

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

Iowa Moving Toward Implementation of a Specialized Business Court

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

11/18/2015  /  Business Court , Business Disputes

New York Commercial Division to Tighten Eligibility Requirements For Two Categories of Disputes

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

Electronic Bookmarking Soon to be Required for Briefs Filed with the New York Commercial Division

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

Summary Jury Trials Coming to the New York Commercial Division

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

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