In an effort to enhance the “utility” and “efficiency” of all responsive pleadings, the state court system has instituted a new rule for its Commercial Divisions that requires lawyers to copy in, or “interlineate,” each specific allegation to which they’re responding.

The amendment to Rule 6 of the state’s Rules of Practice for the Commercial Division was signed by state Chief Administrative Judge Lawrence Marks last Wednesday. It creates a mandatory rule that takes effect Sept. 12 to be followed by all practitioners in the state’s 11 trial-level Commercial Divisions, according to Jonathan Lupkin, a Commercial Division Advisory Council member who first proposed the rule change within the last year.

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