Louis L. Nock is engaged in the practice of commercial and corporate litigation, real estate litigation and general civil practice, including New York state commercial division and general part practice, having litigated many legal matters in state and federal courts and before arbitration tribunals. Mr. Nock’s practice spans all procedural aspects of litigation, including appellate practice, in a broad range of practice areas, such as complex civil actions and multi-jurisdictional disputes; real estate law; commercial law; intrastate, interstate and international trade; employment law; federal civil rights claims; representation of governmental entities; representation of educational institutions; employee pension disputes under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); corporate law; partnership and limited liability company law, including business dissolution practice; construction law; land use law; mortgage foreclosure and workout practice; debtor-creditor law; enforcement of money judgments; and domestic relations law.
Mr. Nock served with distinction as the principal law clerk to New York State Supreme Court Justice Herman Cahn of the Commercial Division, New York County, after which he became a partner at a Manhattan law firm, focusing on commercial litigation. Before his judicial appointment, Mr. Nock was a commercial and corporate litigator, first with an international law firm, and afterward, working closely with William H. Pauley III, who is now a U.S. district judge in Manhattan. Mr. Nock was invited by the New York State Bar Association to co-author, with Justice Cahn, the following book review: “Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts, Second Edition, Robert L. Haig, Esq., Editor-in-Chief; Thomson-West, Eagan Minn., five volumes, 6444 pages; Reviewed by Justice Herman Cahn and Louis L. Nock, Esq.,” New York State Bar Association Trial Lawyers Section Digest, Summer 2005, No. 50. Mr. Nock has also lectured to attorneys on New York commercial practice, as an accredited Continuing Legal Education (CLE) lecturer. Mr. Nock is an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York, County of New York, and served as a moot court judge for the New York University School of Law.
Mr. Nock received his J.D. cum laude in 1990 from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he was a member of the Law Review and also a recipient of the school’s Belkin Scholarship and Alexander Fellowship. He served as a student law clerk to U.S. Magistrate Judge Nina Gershon, now a U.S. district judge. Mr. Nock received his B.A. in 1982 from Ner Israel Rabbinical College/Johns Hopkins University.
In 2006, Mr. Nock was honored to have been certified “most highly qualified” to serve as a judge of the Civil Court of the City of New York, County of New York.
Mr. Nock is a commander, national legal officer, and national legislative liaison officer in the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary; a captain, judge advocate, and command staff officer in the N.Y. Guard; a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary; and a member of the Veteran Corps of Artillery.
Mr. Nock is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit, U.S. district courts for the Southern, Eastern and Northern districts of New York, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, courts of the state of New York, and courts of the state of New Jersey. He is an active member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York County Lawyers’ Association, New York State Bar Association, Association of Arbitrators of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Association of Law Secretaries to the Justices of the Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts in the City of New York, Law Secretaries’ and Law Assistants’ Collegium of the Supreme and Surrogate’s Courts for the First Department, Network of Bar Leaders and New Jersey State Bar Association. Mr. Nock is the Dispute Resolution Subcommittee Chair for the New York State Bar Association's Business Law Committee, General Practice Section.