Yankwitt LLP prevailed on behalf of a global advertising agency based in New York City in a wage and hour case venued in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The case involves allegations of unpaid overtime by a domestic employer and also by the […]
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White Plains, NY (April 7, 2021) – Yankwitt LLP is thrilled to announce that Russell Yankwitt, the firm’s founder and managing partner, has been selected to serve on Law360’s Hospitality Editorial Advisory Board. Yankwitt was selected based on his contributions to the firm’s thriving Hospitality practice, which handles litigation for […]
Judge Briccetti Grants Plaintiff’s Motion to Dismiss Defendants’ Counterclaims in FLSA Case and Directs that Defendants Show Cause Why Sanctions Should Not be Imposed In Yong Biao Ji v. Aily Foot Relax Station, Inc., No. 19-cv-11881 (VSB), 2021 WL 431146 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 8, 2021), the plaintiff brought a class and […]
White Plains, NY (April 2, 2021) – To support local restaurants that have suffered from the pandemic, White Plains-based law firm Yankwitt LLP has started purchasing gift cards as tokens of appreciation for clients and business partners. The first restaurant selected for this new “referral appreciation program” is Kee Oyster […]
In what began as a tweet and later developed into a law review article, Jack Metzler, a government appellate lawyer, proposed a new parenthetical to avoid the Bluebook’s complexity when quoting “language from an opinion that includes a quotation from another opinion.” Jack Metzler, Cleaning Up Quotations, 18 J. App. […]