Richard E. Yaskin, Esquire, a New Jersey and Pennsylvania attorney since 1981, opened the LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD E. YASKIN, A Professional Corporation, in Voorhees, New Jersey in 1995. A graduate of Rutgers University - Camden School of Law, Mr. Yaskin represents individuals who have been wrongfully terminated, discriminated against, harassed or unlawfully retaliated against in the workplace.

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. Formerly, he was NELA/NJ's Program Co-Chair and headed its Model Jury Charge Project.

Yaskin addressed the 1994 NELA Regional Conference (NY, NJ & PA) and the 1997 Annual Occupational Safety & Health Conference on Workers' Compensation statutes, the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Family and Medical Leave Act. In September 1998, he moderated a panel on Employment Discrimination Summary Judgment standards at NELA's Third Circuit Conference.  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 and on “Ethics Issues for Employment Lawyers” at NELA/NJ meeting of March 4, 2008. 

Yaskin has been a commentator on legal issues affecting the work place on "New Jersey Works," a weekly television show produced on NJN, New Jersey's PBS network, and a panelist on WOCC-TV, Channel 8's Legal Line, discussing the topics of Employment Discrimination; Privacy in the Workplace; Defamation and Workplace Violence; Sexual Harassment At Work and School and Job Security for Injured Workers. Yaskin was a Contributing Editor to the American Bar Association's Model Jury Instructions on Employment Litigation. (1st ed. 1994). He also published: Equal Access to Justice Act, 115 New Jersey Lawyer 27 (May 1986).

Yaskin was certified as a Fellow by The Academy of Advocacy of Temple University School of Law (June 1999). He received Advocate status at the ATLA Trial Skills College (Oct. 1990) in Princeton, New Jersey and attended ATLA's Specialized College on Cross-Examination at Cumberland School of Law, Birmingham, AL, in November 1996, ATLA's Ultimate Trial Skills College at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, in March 1997, "Litigating Employment Cases from a Trial Lawyer's Perspective" in Las Vegas, NV March 2000 and Depositions College in Atlanta, October 2001. In July 2003, Yaskin attended the National Session of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy ("NA") in Boulder, CO. and in 2005, he attended the annual Trial Advocacy summer program at the University of Virginia Law School.

Yaskin is a 25-year member of the Camden County Bar Association and serves on its Professionalism and Labor and Employment Law Committees. He is a 2003 to present Bencher of the Sidney J. Reitman Labor and Employment Law Inn of Court.