Category: Commercial/Business Litigation

At Hiller, PC, our New York commercial litigation lawyers frequently field questions about trade secrets. Here, we provide a brief overview of New York trade secret law. Trade Secrets Defined New York has not adopted a version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, nor is there a specific state statute that governs “trade secrets.” Rather, trade […]

If you are involved in a New York commercial litigation dispute, you may choose to resolve your claim through the traditional route of a courtroom trial, or you may choose an alternative means of dispute resolution. The two most common forms of alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) are mediation and arbitration. In comparison to a trial, both arbitration […]

Seventy-five (75) years ago today, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Florida v. Chambers that confessions obtained through coercion are inadmissible at trial. The circumstances of the coercion in Chambers weren’t especially brutal; there was no evidence of beatings, threats, deprivation of food or water, water-boarding or other misconduct which is often associated with confessions brought about by […]