Elise A. Yablonski
New York Business Lawyer
Elise A. Yablonski spent more than 30 years practicing at a large New York City-based international law firm as a litigator, accumulating significant trial and appellate experience. Elise’s practice encompasses disputes in a wide variety of contexts, including business torts, 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, and representation of a family of Afghan refugees and asylees.
Elise is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and a cum laude graduate of Smith College. She clerked for the Hon. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
Elise has actively served on several Bar Association committees and has authored, among other things, a chapter titled “Trial Preliminaries and the Opening Statement,” for the third, fourth and fifth editions of Robert L. Haig’s treatise entitled Commercial Litigation in New York State Courts.
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
Association 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
