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 […]
28 U.S.C. § 1446 authorizes a defendant to remove a case from state to federal court by filing a notice of removal within 30 days of receipt of the initial pleading (assuming removal is otherwise proper under the statute). In a multi-defendant case, 28 U.S.C. § 1446 (b)(2)(A) imposes the […]
Ohring spent 10 years working for global law firms Milbank LLP and Dechert LLP White Plains, NY (June 29, 2022) – Yankwitt LLP, Westchester County’s go-to law firm for high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation, has added to its roster of former Big Law attorneys and federal law clerks with the hiring of […]
It is axiomatic that plaintiffs in federal court must have standing under Article III of the Constitution to bring their claims. To demonstrate standing, plaintiffs must show, inter alia, that they have suffered an “injury-in-fact,” which the Supreme Court has defined as “an invasion of a legally protected interest that […]