EXPERIENCE

Yotam’s recent matters include:

• Representing the Ultimate Fighting Championship in defense of antitrust class actions being pursued by groups of mixed martial artists;
• Representing Diamond Sports Group, the nation’s largest owner of regional sports networks, in its chapter 11 cases filed in the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. In connection with its filing, Diamond entered into a restructuring support agreement with the company’s creditors that would eliminate over $8 billion of its outstanding debt as well as in an adversary proceeding seeking to recover $1.5 billion arising from pre-petition transactions;
• Defending Amazon in several putative class actions and an action by the D.C. Attorney General asserting monopolization and restraint of trade claims based on Amazon pricing policies;
• Serving as trial and appellate counsel for nine plaintiffs injured in the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, winning a multimillion-dollar verdict against the neo-Nazis and white supremacists who conspired to commit racially motivated violence at the rally, and defending that verdict on appeal;
• Defending AECOM, a prominent government contractor, against a series of claims brought against the company under the False Claims Act;
• Representing corporations and individuals navigating government prosecutions and sensitive government and internal investigations;
• Representing victims of consumer fraud in a federal class action against former President Donald J. Trump, his adult children and the Trump Organization;
• Representing students, parents, teachers and LGBTQ rights groups in challenging Florida H.B. 1557, the “Don’t Say Gay” law;
• Securing the dismissal, on behalf of Brown University, of a lawsuit seeking to reinstate Brown’s club squash teams to varsity status;
• Representing Columbia University in Title IX litigation;
• Briefing and arguing a successful First Circuit appeal as court-appointed counsel on behalf of a plaintiff allegedly subjected to unlawful racial discrimination in hiring;
• Briefing and arguing a successful Fourth Circuit appeal as court-appointed counsel on behalf of an individual imprisoned under the Armed Career Criminal Act, under the Criminal Justice Act, in an appeal of a dismissed habeas corpus petition;
• Briefing and arguing a successful Fifth Circuit appeal as court-appointed counsel on behalf of a civil-rights plaintiff; and
• Representing the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence as amicus supporting the State of New York’s concealed-carry licensing scheme against a Second Amendment challenge at the U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. Bruen (No. 20-843).

Before joining Paul, Weiss, Yotam worked at two other law firms, where he practiced complex commercial litigation on behalf of clients spanning the energy, healthcare, financial services and life-insurance industries, among others.

Yotam received his law degree, magna cum laude, from the New York University School of Law, where he was inducted into the Order of the Coif and was a Furman Academic Scholar and Pomeroy Scholar. Prior to his law career, Yotam was a math teacher for Teach for America in the Bronx. He received his B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University.