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CPLR Amendments and Developments

SKU: CPLR001

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This program discusses several recent statutory and caselaw developments in the following areas:

1) the availability of the six-month extension under CPLR 205(a) following termination of an action;
2) the statute of limitations for actions based on fraud;
3) the three-year statute of limitations for nonmedical malpractice claims;
4) personal jurisdiction based on activity over the Internet and longarm jurisdiction;
5) problems with commencement of an action relating to both filing and service;
6) important changes in the lower court acts pertaining to commencement of the action;
7) commencing actions with a summons and notice under CPLR 305(b);
8) recent cases addressing the grave injury requirement in Workers Compensation Law § 11;
9) recent caselaw addressing motions for reargument and renewal;
10) various issues arising in disclosure, including disclosure from a nonparty, expert disclosure, disclosure of videotapes, objections to questions at depositions, the signing of a deposition, the use of a deposition and the physical and mental examination of a party;
11) recent caselaw addressing notices to admit;
12) recent caselaw addressing penalties for refusal to comply with disclosure, including caselaw on spoliation of evidence;
13) the timing of summary judgment motions, including the discussion of several recent decisions from the Court of Appeals;
14) caselaw discussing opposing motions for summary judgment based the need for disclosure;
15) caselaw addressing dismissals for want of prosecution under CPLR 3216;
16) recent amendments to the CPLR 4016 addressing the specific reference to damages in opening and closing statements;
17) interest on claims, verdicts and judgments;
18) recent caselaw on statutory amendments pertaining to the notice of pendency and CPLR Article 65.

Lecturer Bios

Patrick M. Connors, Esq.

Patrick M. Connors is an Assistant Professor of Law at Albany Law School where he teaches New York Practice, Legal Ethics, a seminar in Professional Responsibility and Introduction to Civil Procedure. He was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law where he taught Professional Responsibility from 1991 to 1999. He received his B.A. degree from Georgetown University and his J.D. degree from St. John’s Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review and research assistant to Professor David D. Siegel.

Upon graduation from St. John’s in 1988, Professor Connors served as personal law clerk to Judge Richard D. Simons of the New York Court of Appeals until 1991. From 1991 until May of 2000 he was a member of the litigation department at Hancock & Estabrook, LLP, in Syracuse, New York.

Professor Connors is a reporter for the Committee on New York Pattern Jury Instructions (PJI), the 11-member panel of New York State Supreme Court Justices who draft and oversee the frequent revisions of the standard instructions with which New York judges charge juries in civil cases. He is also the author for the McKinney’s Practice Commentaries for the New York Lawyers Code of Professional Responsibility and a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Professional Ethics. He served on the New York State Attorney Grievance Committee for the Fifth Judicial District from 1997 until 2000.

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CPLR Amendments and Developments

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Patrick M. Connors, Esq.

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