When will a Commercial Division preliminary conference be held?

Retain the actual assignment record and conference notice. Do not substitute the commencement date.

Check whether the RJI accompanied a dispositive motion. That branch ordinarily targets thirty days following the decision, unless moot or scheduled earlier.

Responsible actor. The Commercial Division court setting the conference and parties attending it. Commercial Division Rule 7 scheduling. The 45-day target is not a fixed party filing deadline.

1. Retain the actual assignment record and conference notice. Do not substitute the commencement date.
2. Check whether the RJI accompanied a dispositive motion. That branch ordinarily targets thirty days following the decision, unless moot or scheduled earlier.
3. Exclude the established event day and count every intermediate calendar day under GCL 20.
4. Attend the actual court-noticed conference and comply with its preparation requirements. The court sends at least five days of notice.

The rule includes practicability, a dispositive-motion alternative and the actual court schedule. One assignment date cannot supply the conference date.

Fictitious comparison. Two cases assigned on the same date may receive different court conference notices. A dispositive-motion RJI also uses the later decision or an earlier court-set date.

The rule includes practicability, a dispositive-motion alternative and the actual court schedule. One assignment date cannot supply the conference date.

Practicability

The rule expressly permits the conference as soon after forty-five days as practicable.

Dispositive motion

An RJI accompanied by a dispositive motion has a separate decision-based or earlier court-set schedule.

Adjournment

Absent good cause, no more than one adjournment or more than thirty days is allowed. No adjournment is assumed.

Combined procedure or actual schedule

The rule includes practicability, a dispositive-motion alternative and the actual court schedule. One assignment date cannot supply the conference date.

• Commercial Division Rule 7 scheduling. The 45-day target is not a fixed party filing deadline.
• The rule includes practicability, a dispositive-motion alternative and the actual court schedule. One assignment date cannot supply the conference date.

• Retain the actual assignment record and conference notice. Do not substitute the commencement date.
• Check whether the RJI accompanied a dispositive motion. That branch ordinarily targets thirty days following the decision, unless moot or scheduled earlier.
• Attend the actual court-noticed conference and comply with its preparation requirements. The court sends at least five days of notice.
• The rule expressly permits the conference as soon after forty-five days as practicable.
• An RJI accompanied by a dispositive motion has a separate decision-based or earlier court-set schedule.
• Absent good cause, no more than one adjournment or more than thirty days is allowed. No adjournment is assumed.
• In the applicable Supreme Court NYSCEF program, preserve recorded transmission and the required fee event under rule 202.5-b(d). Participating-party service has its own notification event under (f). Initiating filing does not itself serve the respondent. The clerk’s entry notification is not party service of notice of entry under (h)(2). Check actual paper receipt, exemptions, emergency procedure and qualifying technical-failure directions separately.