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. […]
New York General Obligations Law § 15-108(a) (GOL 15-108) applies when a plaintiff alleges multiple defendants are liable for tortious conduct for the same injury, but one or more defendants settle, and the trial proceeds against the remaining defendants. GOL 15-108 dictates that the plaintiff’s total recovery at trial is […]