04/20/2004 Press Release: Jonathan H. Yellen Joins Buffalo
Prep’s Board of Directors
Damon & Morey
attorney Jonathan H. Yellen has joined the
Board of Directors for Buffalo
Prep, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping bright
inner-city minority students prepare for and succeed in private and
parochial schools and their lives thereafter.
Mr. Yellen is Special Counsel in Damon & Morey's
Business and Corporate Department. His
practice focuses on advising private equity sponsors and public and
private companies in connection with complex business transactions.
Mr. Yellen joined Damon & Morey in 2003 after practicing law in New
York and California with Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and
Latham & Watkins and also as in-house counsel for Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and Digital Lighthouse Corporation. Mr. Yellen
is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School, where he was
a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and subsequently earned a master of laws
degree in taxation from Georgetown University. He is a member of the
American Bar Association (Business Law Section, Venture Capital &
Private Equity Committee), the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York, the New York State Bar Association (Business Law Section,
Securities Regulation Committee ), the Erie County Bar Association and
the Upstate Venture Association of New York.
Buffalo Prep is a non-profit
organization in Buffalo, New York dedicated to offering bright
minority students the education of a lifetime. For over 14 years,
Buffalo Prep has helped hundreds of low-income, inner-city kids get a
better chance at life through education.
Damon & Morey LLP is a full-service law firm calling on the knowledge
and experience of seventy-six attorneys. The firm's major areas of
practice include Business and Corporate Law, Business Litigation,
General Litigation, Health Care Law, Labor & Employment, Probate,
Trust, & Estate, and Real Estate and Banking. Founded in 1917, the
firm currently maintains three offices - the firm's headquarters in
Buffalo, a second office in Rochester, and a third office in Batavia.
04/20/2004 Press Release: Damon & Morey Attorneys Savino and
Widenor Named To Syracuse Law Review
Damon & Morey attorneys
William F. Savino and
David S. Widenor were named co-authors of the Commercial Law
Section of the Syracuse Law Review, an annual survey of the
developments in New York State Law.
Mr. Savino is a Senior Partner and the
Chairman of the firm’s eleven-lawyer Business
Litigation and Insolvency Department. He focuses his practice on
business litigation (including construction, corporate and partnership
dissolution, Uniform Commercial Code and intellectual property
matters) and bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Savino has been admitted to
practice in New York (including all four districts of its federal
courts), Ohio, and before the Second and Eleventh Circuit Courts.
Throughout his career, Mr. Savino has
published and spoken frequently. He co-authored "The Supreme
Importance of the UCC’s Principle of "Uniform Construction," the cover
article for the September 2001 issue of West’s UCC Bulletin. He is an
instructor at State University of New York at Buffalo in both the
School of Management (two semester program on business law - since
1979) and the Law School (teaching commercial litigation - since
2002). He served a one-year term as National President of the
University at Buffalo Law Alumni Association and three years as
chairperson of the Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Committee of the Erie
County Bar Association. In 1971, he received his B.A. degree with high
honors from the University of Rochester and, in 1975, his J.D. degree
cum laude from the State University of New York at Buffalo. While at
law school, he was published matters regarding intellectual property
in the Law Review.
David S. Widenor is a Senior Associate
practicing in the firm’s Business Litigation and Insolvency
Department. He focuses his practice in the area of commercial and
business-related litigation, with a concentration on contract and
Uniform Commercial Code litigation, securities litigation and
intellectual property litigation. Mr. Widenor is admitted to practice
in all New York State Courts, United States District Court for the
Western District of New York and Michigan, United States District
Court for the Eastern District of Ohio, and United States Bankruptcy
Court for the Western District of New York.
Mr. Widenor speaks and writes on issues
of commercial law. He contributed to Professor Donald L. Dorenberg's
recently published book Identity Crisis: Federal Courts in a
Psychological Wilderness. He is also assisting Professor Robert S.
Summers on a book yet to be published concerning the formal features
in the law. Mr. Widenor served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sondra
Miller for the Supreme Court, Appellate Division: Second Judicial
Department. He received his dual degree in Philosophy and Economics,
magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo in
1995. He earned his law degree with honors from Cornell University
School of Law in 1998, where he was managing editor of Cornell Journal
of Law and Public Policy.
Together, Mr. Savino and Mr. Widenor
will also be authoring a series of commercial litigation related
articles for the Buffalo Law Journal.
Damon & Morey LLP is a full-service law
firm calling on the knowledge and experience of seventy-six attorneys.
The firm’s major areas of practice include Business and Corporate Law,
Business Litigation, General Litigation, Health Care Law, Labor &
Employment, Probate, Trust, & Estate, and Real Estate and Banking.
Founded in 1917, the firm currently maintains three offices - the
firm’s headquarters in Buffalo, a second office in Rochester, and a
third office in Batavia.
