Yehuda Goor is an associate in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office. His practice focuses primarily on high-stakes complex litigation, including major commercial disputes, sovereign and multinational litigation, and contentious finance, tech, insurance, and energy matters. Yehuda advises investment funds, companies, high net-worth individuals, and other strategic parties on a range of complicated problems and litigation matters at the trial and appellate levels, often with a cross-border component. Yehuda also has extensive experience in foreign and domestic judgment and arbitral award enforcement proceedings.
Admitted to practice in both New York and Israel, Yehuda often provides strategic counsel and advice to companies and individuals facing thorny legal issues in both jurisdictions, coordinating multi-jurisdictional litigation and leveraging his deep familiarity with the Israeli legal and regulatory systems.
Prior to joining Quinn Emanuel, Yehuda practiced law in the New York office of another international law firm. He also served as a legal officer at the United Nations in New York, where he represented the Secretary-General in litigation and advised senior officials on international law and policy issues.
Yehuda clerked for the Honorable Uzi Vogelman of the Supreme Court of Israel. He received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. magna cum laude from Tel Aviv University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review.
- Harvard Law School
(LL.M., 2016)- James N. Snitzler Scholar
- Tel Aviv University
(LL.B., magna cum laude, 2014)- TAU Law Review
- Editor-in-Chief
- Dean’s List
- Recipient of three TAU memorial awards
- TAU Law Review
- The State Bar of New York
- Israel Bar
- Hebrew
- United Nations:
- Legal Officer, 2021-2023
- Law Clerk for the Honorable Uzi Vogelman:
- Supreme Court of Israel, 2014-2015
- Arbitral Award Enforcement and Asset Tracing: A Global Perspective, ICC Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Conference (Tel Aviv, September 2024)
- Ransom Kidnapping and Human Trafficking: The Case of The Sinai Torture Camps, 36 Berkeley Journal of International Law 111 (2018)
- Trademark Licenses and IP Distribution Rights in Bankruptcy, New York Law Journal (2018) (co-author)
- The Anti-Deprivation Rule in Canadian Common Law, New York Law Journal (2020) (co-author)
- Bankruptcy Impact on Trademarks, Distribution Rights, Entertainment Law & Finance (2018) (co-author)
- Third Circuit Clarifies the Inner Workings of Foreclosure on Repo Collateral, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law (2020) (co-author)
- How to Calculate the Distribution Due on a Claim Subordinated to Equity Level?, The Real Estate Finance Journal (2017) (co-author)
- Creditor Exclusion: The Perils of D&O Coverage, Texas Lawyer (2016) (co-author)
- Editors’ Note: Parliament and the Law, 37 Tel-Aviv University Law Review 507 (2016) (co-author)