Elise A. Yablonski is a versatile litigator with trial and appellate experience in a wide variety of legal contexts, including business torts, trade secrets and unfair competition, professional malpractice, insurance recovery and fiduciary litigation. Her recent pro bono experience includes litigation under the Hague Convention on the civil aspects of international child abduction.
Elise authored Chapter 40, titled "Trial Preliminaries and the Opening Statement," for the third and fourth editions of Robert L. Haig's treatise entitled Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts.
Education
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New York University School of Law, J.D.
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Smith College, B.A.
cum laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Clerkships
- New York Court of Appeals - Hon. Judith S. Kaye
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Colorado
- U.S. District Court, New York, Eastern District
- U.S. District Court, New York, Southern District
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Memberships
New York Women’s Bar Association (Board of Directors, Recording Secretary, Coordinator, Mentor Group Program)
New York City Bar (Committee on Trusts, Estates and Surrogate's Courts, Committee on State Legislation, Former Secretary of Task Force on the New York State Constitutional Convention)
New York State Bar Association
Awards & Recognition
US Legal 500: Litigation: White Collar Criminal Defense 2009
Government Service
- Small Claims Court Arbitrator, New York City Civil Court, 1997-2004