SRZ Attorneys Contribute to Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts
December 8, 2010
Published by Thomson West and the New York County Lawyers’ Association
SRZ litigation partners Harry S. Davis and Robert M. Abrahams and associate Barbara G. Reid have authored two chapters in the third edition of the critically acclaimed treatise Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts. Harry wrote the chapter “Provisional Remedies” and Bob and Barbara co-wrote the chapter “Document Discovery” along with two attorneys from Flemming Zulack Williamson Zauderer.
The 107-chapter, six-volume treatise is a step-by-step practice guide that covers every aspect of working on commercial cases in New York state courts, from the early investigation stages through to pleadings, discovery, motions, trial, appeal and enforcement of judgment. The strategy-oriented guide also includes 38 substantive law chapters that cover the most commonly encountered commercial litigation topics.
A joint venture of Thomson West and the New York County Lawyers’ Association, the third edition, published in September, contains the work of 144 authors, including many of the most well-respected litigators and judges in New York, and takes into account the evolution of commercial litigation in New York state courts over the past six years. It includes 19 new chapters and contains hundreds of pages of litigation forms, sample forms of agreements and policies, jury instructions and checklists, in print and on the CD-ROM that comes with the set.
A review in the New York Law Journal calls the set “an extraordinarily useful reference for practitioners in both upstate and downstate practices, no matter the size of the firm, and no matter the simplicity or complexity of the lawsuit.” The review gives special mention to the chapters authored by the SRZ attorneys. It applauds “Provisional Remedies” for “[guiding] the practitioner through a myriad of statutory requirements in order to successfully obtain or oppose a provisional remedy.” And the “Document Discovery” chapter, the review says, “is particularly strong with numerous practical suggestions on the discovery of electronic records, covers all aspects of document discovery and comprehensively reviews developing New York law regarding electronic discovery."