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 addition of Jonathan Ohring as counsel in the firm”™s White Plains office.
An attorney with more than a decade of litigation experience, Ohring joins Yankwitt from global law firm Milbank LLP. Prior to Milbank, he was an associate in the litigation department of Dechert LLP and served as a federal law clerk to Judge Charlene E. Honeywell of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
“He (Ohring) has the experience we require of our team: clerking for a federal court judge, working for a global law firm and handling complex, high-stakes litigations,” said Russell Yankwitt, managing partner.
Ohring represents clients in complex commercial matters, including contractual disputes, business divorces, corporate governance matters, securities and class actions, shareholder derivative actions, bankruptcy litigation, government and regulatory proceedings and appeals.
Ohring is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey and before the United States Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, First and Second Circuits; and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
He earned his Juris Doctorate degree, with honors, from Emory University School of Law School, where he served on the Emory Law Journal.