Pursuant to the authority vested in me, and with the advice and consent of the Administrative Board of the Courts, I hereby amend Rule 6 of section 202.70(g) of the Uniform Rules for the Supreme and County Courts (Rules of Practice for the Commercial Division), effective November 16, 2020, to read as follows:

Rule 6. Form of Papers.

(a) All papers submitted to the Commercial Division shall [comply] not be inconsistent with CPLR 2101and section 202.5(a). Papers shall be double-spaced and contain print no smaller than twelve-point, or 8½ x 11 inch paper, bearing margins no smaller than one inch. Unless otherwise directed by the Court or provided in the Court’s individual rules, all text in briefs and affidavits, including footnotes, shall use proportionally spaced 12-point serif typeface The print size of footnotes shall be no smaller than ten-point. Papers also shall comply with Part 130 of the Rules of the Chief Administrator. Each electronically-submitted memorandum of law and, where appropriate, affidavit and affirmation shall include bookmarks providing a listing of the document’s contents and facilitating easy navigation by the reader within the document.

(1) The Court may require that electronically submitted memoranda of law include hyperlinks to cited court decisions, statutes, rules, regulations, treatises, and other legal authorities in either legal research databases to which the Court has access or in state or federal government websites. If the Court does not require such hyperlinking, parties are nonetheless encouraged to hyperlink such citations unless otherwise directed by the Court.

(2) If a party certifies in good faith that it cannot include hyperlinks as required by this Rule or the Court without undue burden, due to limitations in its office technology or other showing of good cause, the Court may excuse the party from any otherwise applicable hyperlinking requirement.