profilePractice Areas
General Litigation
Employment & Labor
Personal Injury Defense: General
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• New York Super Lawyers 2011 - Metro
Attorney Profile
Russell M. Yankwitt
Russell Yankwitt
White Plains
New York (NY)
Industry Groups:
Chairperson, Westchester Committee Of Federal Bar Council
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Russell M. Yankwitt is a founding partner of Yankwitt & McGuire, LLP, a successor law firm to Yankwitt & Associates, LLC, in White Plains, New York. Russell graduated with cum laude honors from Cornell Law School in 1996 and began his legal career clerking for the Honorable Thomas C. Platt in the Eastern District of New York. He then worked in the commercial litigation department of the international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, for four years before accepting a position as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2001. For the next seven years, he proudly represented the United States in a variety of defensive and affirmative litigations before leaving to establish his own law firm.
In private practice, Russell has successfully represented a wide range of clients, including: Landry’s Restaurants in employment, premises liability and real estate litigations in several states; a wealthy California resident in a multimillion-dollar contract dispute; several senior-level investment bankers in employment disputes; and three hedge funds defrauded by investors who were later charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Russell has also secured hundreds of thousands of dollars for plaintiffs in personal injury litigations.
About Russell Yankwitt
Law School: Cornell University Law School
Admitted: 1997, New York
Professional Webpage: www.yankwitt.com
Honors and Awards:
- NOAA Award for Environmental Protection
- Environmental Protection Agency Award for Commendable Service for Leading a Team of Assistant United States Attorneys
- United States Attorney General’s Award for Tax Prosecutions, 2006
- Cum Laude
- Russell received the 2008 "NOAA" Bronze Medal Award for "displaying leadership, teamwork and innovation to successfully settle" a complex enviornmental bankruptcy for $125 million., NOAA" Bronze Medal Award
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Trustee, Federal Bar Council
- President, Federal Bar Council, Westchester Committee
- Founder and Chair, Federal Bar Council, Westchester Committee
- Chair, Federal Bar Council, Membership Committee
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York, 2008
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2003
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 2000
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1999
- New York, 1997
- Pennsylvania
Pro bono/Community Service:
- On the smaller plaintiff-side employment cases and personal injury litigaiton, I have waived or substantally reduced my fee to help the plaintiff in need. , 2011
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, Cardozo Law School, 2004-2009
- Note Editor, Cornell International Law Journal, 1996
Representative Clients:
- We are privileged to represent some of the most outstanding restaurant chains in the country, including representing Landry's (Morton's, Chart House, McCormick & Schmick's) and Hillstone Restaurant Group. We also proudly represent large and small business and hedge funds, throughout Westchester and New York City in breach of contract actions, employment litigations, and all types of commercial disputes. We also privileged to represent celebrities such as Stephen Baldwin and high net-worth individuals throughout the state. 2011 was also a very successful year in representing aggrieved clients against their former accountants and bankers., 2008
Educational Background:
- Connecticut College - 1992 - phi beta kappa, magna cum laude.Cornell Law School - 1996 - cum laude.
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