Meet Richard E. Yaskin, Esquire, New Jersey employment law attorney
Richard
E. Yaskin, Esquire, a New Jersey and Pennsylvania attorney,
opened the Southern New Jersey LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD E. YASKIN, A
Professional Corporation in 1995. A 1981 graduate of Rutgers
University - Camden School of Law, Mr. Yaskin primarily represents
individuals who have been wrongfully terminated, discriminated against,
harassed or unlawfully retaliated against in the workplace. He also
represents victims of personal injury, nursing home abuse and wrongful
death.
Yaskin has been an active member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and its New Jersey affiliate (NELA-NJ) for over 20 years. He was NELA-NJ's Vice President for 1998-2000 and has, in 2008, again joined the Executive Board and now serves as Amicus Committee Co-Chair.
He presented on “Retaliation and Harassment in Conjunction with Statutory Discrimination Claims” at the Camden County Bar Association's “Hot Topics in Employment Law” seminar of May 15, 2003, on “The ADA, FMLA and Workers' Compensation” at ATLA-New Jersey's Boardwalk Conference in Atlantic City on April 23, 2004, on “Ethics Issues for Employment Lawyers” at NELA-NJ meeting of March 4, 2008, and on “Case Selection/Retainer Agreements” at the NELA-NJ Conference of October 17, 2008.
Yaskin has taken advanced trial skills training at the The Academy of Advocacy of Temple University School of Law (June 1999), ATLA's Ultimate Trial Skills College at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA (March 1997), “Litigating Employment Cases from a Trial Lawyer's Perspective” in Las Vegas, NV (March 2000), and Depositions College in Atlanta, GA (October 2001). He also attended the National Session of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (“NITA”) in Boulder, CO. in July 2003 and in 2005, attended the annual Trial Advocacy summer program at the University of Virginia Law School.
Yaskin is a 27-year member of the Camden County Bar Association and serves on its Professionalism and Labor and Employment Law Committees. From 2003 to present, he has been a Bencher (mentor) of the Sidney J. Reitman Labor and Employment Law Inn of Court.
Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes