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NNaattiioonnaall DDoocckkeettiinngg AAssssoocciiaattiioonn Calendaring our future together. January 29, 2016 Volume 3, Number 1 In This Issue President's Message President's Message Editor's Note NDA Newsletter Welcome to the January 2016 NDA Newsletter! Committee NDA Welcomes Mary February is upon us. It is hard to believe January has Beaudrow as Treasurer almost come and gone. I hope you all read our annual journal last month. The white papers by our vendors were NDA Comics amazing! I want to thank all of our sponsors for their New York State Updates time, articles and ads. We are so proud of the Journal Delaware State Update that we are sending it to some organizations thinking of becoming a formal chapter of the NDA. Well done and once again thank you Ninth Circuit Change for for sponsoring the NDA! Submitting Seal Materials In the coming weeks we will be announcing the location of our 2016 NDA San Francisco Conference. We are looking to add to our committees to assist in planning Chapter the conference. Please contact me if you are interested in joining a CA State Rule Changes – committee. I know you will find the work enjoyable and rewarding. I would Civil also like to welcome our new Chapters that have joined the NDA in the past year. At this time last year chapters were just a thought. Thank you to Olivia NDA Board Members Bane and the Membership Committee for all their hard work! Stay warm, National Docketing spring will be here soon! As always, if you have any questions or Association Home Page suggestions do not hesitate to contact me at About us [email protected]. Calendar of Events Membership Annual Conference Sponsors Contact us LinkedIn JoAnn Disanti Facebook Twitter DISCLAIMER: This material has been prepared for instructional purposes only, and is not intended to be relied upon in the practice of law In This Issue Editor's Note President's Message Editor's Note The Newsletter Committee is looking forward to its first NDA Newsletter full year working on the newsletter. I would like to thank Committee all the members that helped out last year with edits, comments and suggestions. As a reminder, we are still in NDA Welcomes Mary the early stages of the newsletter so the more we hear Beaudrow as Treasurer from you the more we will be able to improve the NDA Comics newsletter. So what should we be looking forward to from the 2016 newsletters? New York State Updates Delaware State Update First, the San Francisco Chapter has been off to a great start with their Ninth Circuit Change for contributions and that should continue throughout the year. With the success Submitting Seal of the San Francisco Chapter, we are hoping the Washington, DC and New Materials York Chapters will follow the San Francisco lead. Second, the Intellectual NDA San Francisco Property Group will be conducting three separate surveys regarding their Chapter practice, which should produce topics for future submissions to the newsletter. Please be on the lookout for the first survey in a few weeks. CA State Rule Changes – Third, we plan to broaden our topics for the vendor submission articles so Civil that we can continue to expand our knowledge base. NDA Board Members In this year’s first edition you will find the latest court updates from California, Delaware, New York & the Ninth Circuit, plus we welcome Mary Beaudrow as our new Treasurer. National Docketing Association Home Page About us William McKay Calendar of Events Membership Annual Conference Sponsors Contact us LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Page | 2 In This Issue NDA Newsletter Committee President's Message Editor's Note William G. McKay Lisa Cadungug NDA Newsletter NDA Technology & NDA Newsletter Committee Publication Committee Chair Co-Editor NDA Welcomes Mary Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP McEwen Gisvold LLP [email protected] [email protected] Beaudrow as Treasurer Laurie Jennings NDA Comics Elaine Screechfield NDA Newsletter NDA Education Committee Chair New York State Updates Co-Editor Morrison & Foerster LLP Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP Delaware State Update [email protected] [email protected] Ninth Circuit Change for John Hagel Lindsay Owen Submitting Seal NDA Technology Committee NDA Technology Committee Materials Technical Analyst Technical Analyst NDA San Francisco Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP White & Case LLP Chapter [email protected] [email protected] CA State Rule Changes – Civil NDA Board Members Attention writers! We are looking for articles to be published in next month’s NDA newsletter. Articles need to be original or have National Docketing consent from the author to be reproduced. If you would like to submit an article for the NDA Newsletter please click the link below: Association Home Page About us Click here to submit an article for the NDA newsletter Calendar of Events Membership Annual Conference Sponsors Contact us LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Page | 3 In This Issue NDA Welcomes Mary Beaudrow as Treasurer President's Message Editor's Note NDA Newsletter Please join me in welcoming Mary J. Beaudrow as the National Docketing Committee Association’s new Treasurer. Mary is a Senior Docket Coordinator at Morrison & Foerster LLP. Ms. Beaudrow has been employed in the legal field for over NDA Welcomes Mary thirty years, spending much of that time working in the attorney service Beaudrow as Treasurer business. Mary currently serves as President for Legal Secretaries, NDA Comics Incorporated, and she is a past president of California Association of Legal New York State Updates Support Professionals. She is a member of the National Docketing Association (and its SF Bay Area Chapter) and of Mt. Diablo Legal Professionals Delaware State Update Association. She has lectured at a number of forums, including San Francisco Ninth Circuit Change for Legal Professionals Association, Livermore-Amador Legal Professionals Submitting Seal Association, and the Bay Area Legal Forum. Mary can be reached at Materials [email protected]. NDA San Francisco Chapter CA State Rule Changes – Civil William McKay NDA Board Members NDA Comics National Docketing Association Home Page About us Calendar of Events Membership Annual Conference Sponsors Contact us LinkedIn Facebook Twitter Jade Weaver Page | 4 In This Issue President's Message New York State Updates Editor's Note NDA Newsletter Out of State and Foreign Attorneys Temporary Practice Committee NDA Welcomes Mary Beaudrow as Treasurer The Court of Appeals has amended its rules to add a new Part 523 pertaining to the temporary practice of law in New York by out-of-state and foreign attorneys. NDA Comics The amendment sets forth the circumstances under which an attorney not New York State Updates admitted in New York may provide temporary legal services in the State. An Delaware State Update attorney providing such temporary legal services may not establish an office or Ninth Circuit Change for other systematic presence in the State or hold out to the public or otherwise Submitting Seal represent that the attorney is admitted to practice here. Additionally, an attorney Materials practicing pursuant to Part 523 is subject to the New York Rules of Professional NDA San Francisco Conduct and the disciplinary authority of this State. Chapter CA State Rule Changes – The Court also has amended its Rules for the Registration of In-house Counsel Civil (Part 522). Under the newly amended rules, registration is now available to a NDA Board Members foreign attorney who is a member in good standing of a recognized legal profession in a non-United States jurisdiction, the members of which are admitted to practice as lawyers or counselors at law or the equivalent and subject to effective regulation by a duly constituted professional body or public authority. The rule amendments became effective December 30, 2015. To view a copy of National Docketing the Court's orders amending the rules please click here: Association Home Page About us http://nationaldocketing.org:80/resources/Documents/2016%20NDA%20Newslet Calendar of Events ters%20and%20Journal/Liniked%20files%20in%20newsletter%202016/NY%20 Membership State%20Practice.pdf Annual Conference Sponsors New Service Rule Contact us New York State is no different than any other state, meaning it has its share of LinkedIn strange rules, one of which became law this month. When the act of serving an Facebook interlocutory document for a New York State case is by first class mail, outside Twitter the state, but within the United States, six days shall be added to the prescribed period. An interlocutory document served within New York shall have five days added to the prescribed period. Why did New York State not just make it six days for service regardless of serving within the state or not? Making it six days for any situation would make it easier for a docketing professional having to figure out where the mailing actually took place. When in doubt it might be the better practice to just play it safe each time. Please find below a section from CPLR 2103 that mentions the new section. Rule 2103. Service of papers. (a) Who can serve. Except where otherwise prescribed by law or order of court, papers may be served by any person not a party of the age of eighteen years or over. (b) Upon an attorney. Except where otherwise prescribed by law or order of court, Page | 5 papers to be served upon a party in a pending action shall be served upon the In This Issue party's attorney. Where the same attorney appears for two or more parties, only one copy need be served upon the attorney. Such service upon an attorney shall be made: President's Message 1. by delivering the paper to the attorney personally; or Editor's Note 2.