Ask a litigator if a case can be removed to federal court and he/she will likely examine whether there is diversity jurisdiction, meaning are the parties to the case from different states and is the amount in controversy greater than $75,000? But there is another way to get a case […]
White Plains, NY (March 10, 2021) – Yankwitt LLP is thrilled to announce a newly established scholarship at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University – the Yankwitt LLP Immediate Impact Scholarship – which will be awarded to an incoming first year student of color who expresses an […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on all phases of litigation, with court and office closures, the tolling of CPLR deadlines, and the suspension of statutes of limitation. In turn, disputes have arisen over litigants’ compliance or lack thereof with the CPLR and some opportunistic parties have sought to default […]
The Situation: Yankwitt LLP was retained by WB Studio Enterprises, Inc. (Warner Bros.) after an accountant of a newly acquired subsidiary lost more than $1.3 million of the subsidiary’s money to a sophisticated e-mail scam. An online hacker had infiltrated the accountant’s e-mail system and was able to intercept and […]
Yankwitt LLP managing partner, Russell Yankwitt, has been elected to the Executive Board of the Federal Bar Council (FBC), an organization of lawyers who practice in federal courts within the Second Circuit. Active in the FBC since he graduated from Cornell Law School and started clerking for the Hon. Thomas […]
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