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Alana Yakovlev is a seasoned litigator with a focus on complex commercial litigation and white-collar defense litigation. 

As an aggressive trial attorney, Alana’s professional experience in working closely with clients has led to solid case results. Alana Yakovlev knows how to prepare a winning criminal defense case and how to do it quickly and efficiently. Her biggest inspiration is a challenging case, especially when others say, “it can’t be done”. Time and again, the case results speak for themselves.

Alana has served as a trial lawyer for several firms, a legal analyst for Bloomberg, clerked for a New York Supreme Court judge, and interned for the Kings County District Attorney’s office. Alana Yakovlev was also a partner with the national litigation firm, Lydecker LLP. Alana serves as in-house counsel for various business organizations and of counsel to several prestigious law firms.

Alana Yakovlev has always excelled at academics, attending college at the young age of 16 and graduating with honors. She has also received media attention for her successful results in high profile cases, defending members of La Cosa Nostra and other white-collar cases.

Alana has been nominated as a Super Lawyer from 2013 – 2023, an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. Only 2.5 percent of the attorneys in California are named to the Rising Stars list each year. She has also been selected to be a member of The National Trial Lawyers Organization as the Top 100 Trial lawyers in the country as well, as selected to the list of Top 40 Under 40. This is an elite and exclusive membership based on performance as an exceptional trial lawyer.

Alana has also been frequently featured on Court TV, Fox News and News Max as a legal commentator on cases making headlines in the nation and internationally.

Alana Yakovlev serves as a Board member on several not-for-profit organizations for lone soldiers and cancer patients, Chayal el Chayal, and the Living Waters Foundation for Health. Alana speaks fluent Spanish and Russian and is proficient in Italian and Hebrew. Alana takes great pride in maintaining a pro bono docket through her work with the Aleph Institute for Jewish Prisoners, which has led her to be nominated and selected to the Mentsch List published in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.