Mr. Yu is a partner with the Litigation Department.  His practice specializes in product liability defense, trade secret litigation, and commercial litigation.  He has handled a diverse range of matters, including complex contract disputes, toxic tort litigation, trade secret misappropriation, franchise disputes, business torts, consumer fraud, creditors’ rights and workouts.  His client representations include manufacturers, insurance carriers, hedge funds, franchisors, secured lenders, and real estate developers, among many others.

As a member of the firm’s Products Liability Practice Group, Mr. Yu has substantial experience defending manufacturers against claims of injury or fear of injury caused by exposure to asbestos-containing products and various dioxin-related chemical compounds.  He has frequently defended claims alleging strict products liability in tort, design defect, manufacturing defect, and failure to warn. 

As a member of the firm’s Trade Secrets Group, he has also successfully obtained restraining orders and injunctions against former employees and competitors for theft of confidential/proprietary information and/or breach of restrictive covenants on behalf of several clients involved in various industries, including product sales, software development, actuarial services and the staffing industry. 

Mr. Yu has also defended several class action lawsuits, and is experienced in handling multi-district litigations.  Recently, he helped obtain the dismissal of a putative class action claim brought against a major insurance company by a medical health provider, alleging damages for late payment of medical benefits in violation of New York’s Insurance Law and New York’s consumer fraud statute.

Mr. Yu is actively involved in pro bono work for clients referred by the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the Lawyers Alliance for New York.  From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Yu served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ariel A. Rodriguez of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Mr. Yu is a partner with the Litigation Department.  His practice specializes in product liability defense, trade secret litigation, and commercial litigation.  He has handled a diverse range of matters, including complex contract disputes, toxic tort litigation, trade secret misappropriation, franchise disputes, business torts, consumer fraud, creditors’ rights and workouts.  His client representations include manufacturers, insurance carriers, hedge funds, franchisors, secured lenders, and real estate developers, among many others.

As a member of the firm’s Products Liability Practice Group, Mr. Yu has substantial experience defending manufacturers against claims of injury or fear of injury caused by exposure to asbestos-containing products and various dioxin-related chemical compounds.  He has frequently defended claims alleging strict products liability in tort, design defect, manufacturing defect, and failure to warn. 

As a member of the firm’s Trade Secrets Group, he has also successfully obtained restraining orders and injunctions against former employees and competitors for theft of confidential/proprietary information and/or breach of restrictive covenants on behalf of several clients involved in various industries, including product sales, software development, actuarial services and the staffing industry. 

Mr. Yu has also defended several class action lawsuits, and is experienced in handling multi-district litigations.  Recently, he helped obtain the dismissal of a putative class action claim brought against a major insurance company by a medical health provider, alleging damages for late payment of medical benefits in violation of New York’s Insurance Law and New York’s consumer fraud statute.

Mr. Yu is actively involved in pro bono work for clients referred by the Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the Lawyers Alliance for New York.  From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Yu served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ariel A. Rodriguez of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.