White Plains, NY (July 25, 2022) – Yankwitt LLP, Westchester County’s go-to law firm for high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation, has launched a dedicated appellate practice. “While the firm has always handled appeals in cases for our existing clients, we have established a dedicated practice group to best serve our current and […]
Yankwitt LLP prevailed at a bench trial in a complex real estate case before the Hon. Barry Ostrager in the New York Supreme Court, Commercial Division in Manhattan. The case arose from a dispute over a $750,000 escrow established as part of our client’s purchase of an Upper East Side […]
Yankwitt LLP successfully resolved a breach of contract case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York related to a services agreement between the firm’s billion-dollar retail and wholesale client and one of its service providers. The provider alleged that it invoiced and was owed an […]
Yankwitt LLP was engaged by a financial services company to file a claim with its insurer under its employee fraud policy. The client discovered that one of its employees had engaged in a years-long scheme to defraud it of almost $1.7 million by manipulating certain complex financial portfolios. Yankwitt LLP […]
The New York Law Journal recently published the revealing Yankwitt LLP article, “All Bark but Rarely a Bite: A Recent Survey of the Often-Empty Threat of Punitive Damages in Westchester County,” written by Managing Partner Russell Yankwitt and law clerk Connor Hilbie. Analyzing cases decided over the past five years […]