Amaris Elliott Engel

December 29, 2014 | New York Law Journal

The days of never-ending depositions in Commercial Division cases are drawing to an end.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

3 minute read

December 24, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A Commercial Division rule enacted last year governing discovery from experts may be making the business community more comfortable with litigating in state court, several attorneys told the New York Commercial Litigation Insider.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

4 minute read

December 22, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

The days of never-ending depositions in Commercial Division cases are drawing to an end. Chief Administrative Judge A. Gail Prudenti authorized limitations on depositions in an order issued today.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

3 minute read

December 19, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

Proskauer Rose has a vigorous commercial practice that frequently brings it into the Manhattan Commercial Division on behalf of its clients. But recently, the law firm itself has been defending its lawyering in four unrelated commercial cases. In recent motions, plaintiffs have either alleged malpractice or that the firm's attorneys had conflicts of interest and should be disqualified.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

10 minute read

December 18, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A $4 billion-plus settlement to resolve JPMorgan Chase's liability for more than 300 pools of home loans has raised objections from a number of entities, including the government-chartered agency that liquidated several credit unions and a residential mortgage-backed securities insurer on the hook to pay more than $500 million for the failed trusts.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

December 16, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A religious charity's efforts to attach $20 million in assets from Rothstein Kass, a New Jersey accounting firm recently acquired by KMPG, got a boost last week when a Manhattan judge ordered a hearing on why the firm's assets should not be attached.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

4 minute read

December 09, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

The Office of Court Administration has taken the next step in an attempt to provide support for the motion-heavy Commercial Division.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

3 minute read

December 09, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A Commercial Division justice in Suffolk County has ruled that an insurance software vendor that allegedly owes more than $465,000 to a subcontractor must be brought into a corporate veil piercing case in which the vendor's alter ego is allegedly an insurance company.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

4 minute read

December 05, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

A dispute over a deed that has been holding up a $1.5 billion waterfront development in Queens has been ordered into arbitration.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

4 minute read

December 03, 2014 | Commercial Litigation Insider

Shareholders who brought a class action objecting to Verizon Communications' $130 billion acquisition of Vodafone's 45-percent stake in the American telecom's wireless business have asked for final court approval of their non-monetary settlement.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read