PROMOTION AT YANKWITT

Yankwitt LLP  Partner Dina Hamerman has been promoted to executive director, a leadership position that adds oversight of the White Plains firm”™s administrative operations to her ongoing responsibilities.

An accomplished commercial litigator, Hamerman has been with the law firm for more than 10 years. She will continue to maintain a robust litigation docket and serve as the firm”™s lead editor on all substantive work. 

“Dina has been my ”˜deputy”™ for some time, so this promotion makes it official. I know I speak for the entire firm when I say that this promotion is well-deserved,” said Russell Yankwitt, managing partner.

Hamerman”™s practice focuses on complex civil and employment litigation representing a diverse roster of clients. She recently served as local counsel in the large, coordinated New York state opioid litigation ”“ the first in the United States to be tried to a jury ”“ based out of Suffolk County Supreme Court.

Before starting her career in private practice with New York City firm Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, Hamerman  clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and for Judge Alfred M. Wolin, District of New Jersey.