ESQ HQ · New York Law Watch
About ESQ HQ
ESQ HQ publishes New York Law Watch: a dated record of decisions from the New York Court of Appeals, the four departments of the Appellate Division, the Appellate Terms and selected trial courts, read against the official text. Each record gives the holding in one sentence, the court’s own words where they carry the point, the official citation and a link to the official slip opinion or advance sheet. The site is edited by Eric McAvey, a litigator admitted in New York. He approves every featured decision, weekly note, tracker and article; the decision records themselves are produced by the Law Watch pipeline described on the method page and are not written by him.
The site covers the New York state courts only. It does not republish the headnotes, digests or index terms of the Official Reports, which belong to the Law Reporting Bureau. It does not give legal advice; a decision summarised here may have been modified, reversed or superseded after the date shown, and the official text and subsequent history should be checked before any reliance.
ESQ HQ is published by the team behind Aletheia. Aletheia is a citation-verification service made by Olympus Legal Systems. That connection is set out on the disclosure page. No decision is selected, featured or omitted because of a client, a product or a payment.