While the Commercial Division Rules are closer to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure than any other set of court rules in New York (including the base requirements of the CPLR), they are far from identical. One area where the Federal Rules and the Commercial Division Rules differ is that the former contain copious initial disclosure requirements, requiring parties to exchange basic discovery at the outset of a case without awaiting a request, while the latter do not. Continue Reading Commercial Division Moves Towards Adopting Additional Initial Disclosure Requirements
