You are contacted by Vermont based counsel for a small business which recently entered Confessed Judgment in Vermont against a New York business for its failure to satisfy certain promissory notes. ...
Welcome to the Suffolk Lawyer’s inaugural column focused on Suffolk County’s Commercial Division. Although the column will regularly address topics of particular interest to the commercial...
In late 2018, the First Department’s decision in Daesang Corporation v. The NutraSweet Company, 167 A.D.3d 1, 85 N.Y.S.2d 6 (1st Dep’t 2018) refused to vacate a $100 million arbitration award...
At first blush, two principles regarding the loyalty due to a current employer from an employee seem irreconcilable: On one hand, an employee owes his employer complete loyalty; on the other, an...
The provisional remedies found a cornerstone of practice in the Commercial Division. This month we review the basic elements of the most commonly sought provisional remedy, the preliminary...
In Due Pesci v. Sustainable (New York County Index No. 651879/10), plaintiff Due Pesci Inc. brought suit against defendants Threads for Thought, LLC (“TFT”) and Sustainable Apparel Group, LLC...
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