Pursuant to Administrative Order dated October 28, 2026 (AO/310/2026), the Chief Administrative Judge of the New York Courts, with the advice and consent of the Administrative Board of the Courts, amended Rule 6 of the Rules of the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court (22 NYCRR § 202.70) by adding a new subsection (e), effective December 1, 2026. A memorandum from the New York Commercial Division dated April 15, 2026, set forth the reasons for the Rule amendment.
The amendment reads:
(e) Citations. Provide pinpoint citations in legal memoranda, letter briefs, affidavits, affirmations, and exhibits. For legal authority cite the specific page; for depositions cite the page and line number; for affidavits or affirmations, cite the page number and paragraph number; and, for exhibits, provide equivalent specificity such as, for example, the page and section number for contracts and similar documents. To further aid the reader, when referring to legal memoranda, letter briefs, affidavits and exhibits filed in NYSCEF, cite the NYSCEF document number (e.g., NYSCEF Doc. 30, Plaintiff’s Memorandum of Law at p.4) ), which shall entitle the filing party to exceed by an additional 100 words the applicable word count limit set forth in Rule 17 for the document in question. [Emphasis added.]
Thank you to Commercial Division Advisory Council Co-Chair Bob Haig and to Jonathan Lupkin, who is Co-Chair of the Commercial Division Advisory Council’s Procedural Rules Subcommittee, for bringing this to my attention.
Posted by Doug Toering of Mantese Honigman, PC. www.manteselaw.com
