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Client Alert: Assignments of Error: Is That Your Final Answer?

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On July 22, 2025, the Virginia Court of Appeals issued a published order in Sisco v. Holtzman, Rec. No. 024025, clarifying the rules for assignments of error in appellate proceedings. Assignments matter. The Court of Appeals...more

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Oklahoma Legislature Creates Two New Specialty Courts

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Oklahoma has now joined many other states creating specialty business courts to handle complex business litigation. Senate Bill 632 creates two new specialized business courts, which will be located in Oklahoma County and...more

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House Bill 40 Approved by the Texas Legislature—Expanding Business Court Jurisdiction and Operations

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As an update to Vinson & Elkins’ prior coverage of House Bill 40 (“H.B. 40”)—new legislation that expands the jurisdiction and operations of the recently opened Texas business courts—both houses of the Texas Legislature...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

A Court that Means Business: Three Decades of the New York Commercial Division

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On March 4, 2025, the New York County Lawyers Association (“NYCLA”) celebrated a significant milestone during its Annual Gala held at The Pierre Hotel in Manhattan. The event commemorated the 30th Anniversary of the...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Productivity and Progress: Recap of the 2024 Business Court Report and Some Civics

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Each February, the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts publishes its Report on North Carolina Business Court. The Report includes data on case types, number of cases, pending motions, and average age, with...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Judges Wipe Out Business Interruption Policyholders’ First (And Only) COVID Win

Out of the 1,199 (and counting) trial court rulings addressing Covid business interruption lawsuits, only one of them resulted in a victory for the policyholder. Back in 2022, Baylor College of Medicine won $12 million from...more

Jackson Walker

The Business Court of Texas Issues Key Opinions on Jurisdiction

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The Business Court of Texas, established on September 1, 2024, has issued its first round of major opinions. These rulings, authored by judges across its divisions, largely address jurisdictional questions stemming from the...more

Kilpatrick

Texas Business Courts Prepare to Begin Accepting New Cases

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This is an update to our firm’s previous article covering the creation of Texas’ new business court system and Fifteenth Court of Appeals. These new courts were created in 2023 by the 88th Texas Legislature and will begin...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Texas (Business) Courts to Open for Business: Law Creating Specialized Business Courts in Texas Becomes Official

Last Friday, June 9, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed Texas House Bill 19, which codifies a business court system in Texas. Similar to the commercial court systems that exist in Delaware and New York, Texas's business court...more

Oliva Gibbs

New Texas Business Courts

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In June 2023, Governor Greg Abbott signed new legislation that will change the landscape in Texas for resolving business disputes. Texas House Bill 19 (HB 19) creates new Texas “Business Courts” with jurisdiction over certain...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The new Texas Business Court: What it is and how to use it

With Governor Abbott signing House Bill 19 into law on June 9, Texas joins more than two dozen US states with a specialized business court system designed to preside over specific high-value business and commercial disputes....more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Navigating Appearances Before Commercial Division Justice Timothy S. Driscoll: Tips for Young Lawyers and A Refresher for Seasoned...

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As any practitioner litigating a case before the Commercial Division knows, and as we have mentioned time and again on this blog, it is critical to know the Part Rules of the particular judge assigned to your case.  But...more

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2022 Business Court CLE: What the Business Court Judges Want You to Know

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On October 14, 2022, the Mecklenburg County Business Court CLE was back in person, with a full day of amazing presentations and, as is tradition, concluded with the panel of Business Court Judges....more

JAMS

Fireside Chat: A Conversation Between BLS Judges

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See highlights of JAMS Boston’s Fireside Chat between two retired judges who have both presided over the successful Business Litigation Session (the "BLS") of the Massachusetts Superior Court. The Hon. Judith Fabricant (Ret.)...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

New BLS Judges: Judge Peter Krupp, Judge Hélène Kazanjian, Judge Michael Ricciuti

Three new judges have joined the BLS rotation. Judge Peter Krupp replaced Judge Karen Green for the January-June rotation period of BLS1. In 2013, Governor Deval Patrick appointed Judge Krupp to the Superior Court. Before his...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

BLS 2020 Year in Review: Five Key Takeaways

A few weeks ago, the Social Law Library sponsored its annual review of the BLS. Like most events over the past year, the 2020 Year in Review was conducted virtually with Judge Kenneth Salinger and BLS practitioners logging on...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Bidding Adieu to Another Manhattan Commercial Division Justice

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The Manhattan Commercial Division lost a gem of a jurist last month when Governor Cuomo appointed Justice Saliann Scarpulla to a seat on the bench of the Appellate Division, First Department.  Good for her, to be sure.  But...more

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Helpful Links to Virtual Courts for Commercial Division Litigators

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Three months ago very few of us regularly communicated by virtual videoconferencing.  Today, it’s fast become a daily routine, and in all likelihood will become a more permanent part of our practice.  Who would have guessed...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Chief Judge DiFiore Announces Expansion of Commercial Division to Bronx County

During her annual State of Our Judiciary speech on February 26, 2019, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore announced that the Commercial Division would be expanding to Bronx County. As stated by Chief Judge DiFiore, the expansion is “in...more

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Lack of Judges Leads to Longer Litigation Times

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During the past three years, the number of judicial vacancies in U.S. federal courts has quickly grown. While there has been a flurry of individuals recently nominated to fill the vacant judgeships, many positions remain...more

Brooks Pierce

Stop Asking The Business Court To Overrule An Order Of Another Business Court Judge

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I don't know why lawyers keep trying to get Business Court Judges to overrule decisions by one of their predecessors. It is just not going to happen, as illustrated (yet again) by Judge Bledsoe's decision in County of...more

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Creation of International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) Subsection

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In an Administrative Order dated December 3, 2013, the Chief Administrative Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, Honorable Bertila Soto, announced the creation of an International...more

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