White Plains, NY (May 28, 2025) – Yankwitt LLP, Westchester County’s go-to law firm for high-stakes, bet-the-company litigation, is proud to announce that Partner Jason Swergold has been named to the 2025 Fairfield County 40 Under 40 awarded by Westfair Business Journals. Swergold and his fellow nominees will be honored […]
A Yankwitt LLP litigation team led by Partner Ross Morrison successfully secured the dismissal of nearly all claims in a complex commercial dispute involving a breach of an alleged oral partnership agreement. The plaintiff had filed a lawsuit in federal court in the Southern District of New York claiming that […]
A litigation team led by Partner Ross Morrison successfully opposed a motion to dismiss 17 causes of action in a legal battle involving family members and their real estate business. The case centers around a dispute among Yankwitt LLP’s clients, their mother and other family members, including a brother and […]
In a recent decision, the Appellate Division, Second Department, reaffirmed the New York rule that a plaintiff opposing a motion for summary judgment cannot raise a new theory of liability not already alleged in her complaint in the opposition brief. This principle came as an unpleasant surprise in 2016 to […]
Yankwitt LLP obtained a resounding summary judgment victory in the Westchester Supreme Court, Commercial Division on behalf of its client, the former CFO of a technology staffing company, in litigation against the company and its CEO. Yankwitt LLP filed the lawsuit on behalf of its client after the company and […]