When must disclosure be completed in a standard or complex New York case?

Part 202.12 uses twelve months from RJI filing for standard cases and fifteen months for complex cases in its scheduling framework. Actual applicability, track designation and court directions matter. Standard and complex schedules belong in one guide, not separate automatic date calculators.

Responsible actor. The parties completing disclosure under the applicable scheduling order.

Identify the court, part and applicable rule set. Commercial Division and differentiated-case-management provisions require their own applicability checks.

Preserve the RJI filing and actual standard or complex designation.

Read the actual so-ordered stipulation or scheduling order and every later modification.

Distinguish the completion schedule from individual disclosure-response dates, note-of-issue requirements and compliance conferences.

This source guide requires the applicable court rules, case track and actual disclosure order. It publishes no automatic date or paid calculation. An RJI date alone cannot establish every controlling disclosure obligation.

1. Identify the actor, required act and governing procedural branch.
2. Establish the operative event, actual service route, completion and every controlling order.
3. Apply only the provision’s stated calendar model or minimum interval, with all necessary comparisons.
4. Check eligibility, local requirements, completed service or filing and any separate controlling period.

General Construction Law 20 ordinarily excludes the event day and counts calendar days. Establish the legal service-completion event before counting a completion-based period. CPLR 2103 additions require their stated service and procedural conditions; do not transfer pending-action paper additions automatically to original summons service. This guide publishes explanatory scenarios only.

Check General Construction Law 25-a and the actual applicable court, public holidays, orders and procedural branch. A closed-day rule for a forward act must not be used mechanically to shorten a minimum notice interval before a hearing. This guide supplies no automatic carry or inferred hearing date.

This source guide requires the applicable court rules, case track and actual disclosure order. It publishes no automatic date or paid calculation. An RJI date alone cannot establish every controlling disclosure obligation.

Assume a standard case within the applicable Part 202 branch and an RJI filed July 6, 2026. The nominal twelve-calendar-month reference is July 6, 2027. The actual so-ordered stipulation or scheduling order and subsequent directions determine the case’s obligations. The nominal reference is not a self-executing paid disclosure deadline.

Assume the same RJI date but an applicable complex-case designation. The nominal fifteen-month reference is October 6, 2027. Standard and complex are branches of the same disclosure-completion procedure. Read the actual designation and order. One grouped guide explains both branches.

Assume the court actually orders disclosure completion by June 1, 2027. Part 202.12(e)(2) permits a shorter or longer court-directed schedule under its conditions. The generic twelve-month reference does not override that order. Preserve and follow the actual scheduling direction and any later modification.

Assume an applicable standard-case RJI reference dated September 25, 2026. The nominal twelve-month anniversary is Saturday, September 25, 2027. The actual order and applicable procedural calendar require review. This guide does not turn an administrative reference into an automatically rolled court deadline.

Actual scheduling framework

Part 202.12(b), (e)(2) and (g) address stipulated and court-issued schedules and possible shorter or longer directions.

Differentiated case management

Part 202.19 applies to designated categories and courts or parts. Its track framework must not be assumed universally applicable.

Commercial Division scope

The official Part 202 compilation identifies Commercial Division provisions that supersede specified preliminary-conference rules. Verify the actual part and governing schedule.

• This source guide requires the applicable court rules, case track and actual disclosure order. It publishes no automatic date or paid calculation. An RJI date alone cannot establish every controlling disclosure obligation.
• Standard and complex are conditional schedules for the same disclosure-completion act. The grouped review preserves both conditions and gives priority to the actual governing order.

• Identify the court, part and governing disclosure framework.
• Preserve the RJI filing and track designation.
• Read the actual so-ordered schedule and later changes.
• Identify each outstanding discovery act and separate response obligation.
• Check actual completion, compliance-conference and note-of-issue requirements.
• Complete the disclosure acts required by the actual schedule. A calculated anniversary cannot establish production, deposition completion, certification of readiness or a properly filed note of issue.