Elizabeth M. Young

Partner | Litigation

About

Elizabeth focuses her practice in the areas of mass tort, toxic tort, and product liability litigation in state court throughout New York and in federal court. Her clients have included manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, contractors, technology corporations, and transportation entities.

  • Her experience also includes commercial and class action defense litigation. She has litigated appeals of several issues of first impression for premises owners and ship owners.

    Elizabeth has served as a member of numerous bar association committees, including the Litigation, Product Liability, Tort Litigation, and State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction Committees at the New York City Bar Association. She has also taught Continuing Legal Education courses, including a litigation skills workshop and a product liability course.

Practices

  • Civil Pretrial and Trial Services

  • Commercial Litigation

  • Products Liability Litigation and Counseling

Admissions

  • New York

  • District of Columbia

  • United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

  • United States Supreme Court

Education

  • Fordham University School of Law, 1987

  • Vassar College, 1984

Honors and Awards

  • “AV Preeminent” Rating from Martindale-Hubbell

  • Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers

  • “New York’s Women Leaders in the Law 2013,” New York Magazine, March 2013

  • “New York Area’s Top-Rated Lawyers,” New York Magazine, December 2012

  • “New York City’s Top Women Lawyers,” Avenue Magazine, October 2012

  • “New York’s Women Leaders in the Law 2012,” New York Magazine, March 2012

  • “New York City’s Top Women Lawyers,” Avenue Magazine, October 2011

Experience

  • FisherBroyles, LLP

  • Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC

  • Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

Representative Matters

  • Achieved a decision unanimously affirming summary judgment for a premises owner in the first appellate asbestos case under the New York Labor Law.

  • Obtained a dismissal during jury selection in a high exposure products liability case against a manufacturer.

  • Negotiated dismissals of almost an entire inventory of toxic tort litigation against a large international technology corporation, including several hundred cases in state and federal courts, including Multidistrict Litigation.

  • Lead counsel for a contracting company, several public transportation entities, and a foreign automobile manufacturer in toxic tort litigation in state court.

  • Lead counsel for a component part manufacturer in toxic tort litigation in state and federal courts.

  • Lead counsel for a railroad in occupational chemical exposure cases in state and federal courts.

  • Represented numerous subcontractors in more than 10,000 cases in the World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation in federal court.