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 […]
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 […]