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Elana T. Henderson is a partner at Franklin, Gringer & Cohen, P.C., and represents companies, boards, and their executives in all aspects of daily operations and business disputes, serving both as outside general counsel and litigation counsel.
Elana advises her clients on labor and employment, commercial, and contractual issues, while also counseling her clients on risk management strategies. She keeps her clients updated on the ever-changing landscape of employment law at the agency, city, state and national level, and ensures that all client handbooks and written policies are up-to-date. Included among her clients are co-op and condo boards, as well. Elana has long represented such boards against problem shareholders and tenants.
As an experienced litigator, Elana has represented clients and companies of various sizes in complex multi-party litigations, arbitrations, mediations, and other dispute resolution proceedings. She has years of experience litigating and resolving business torts, violations of the Labor Law, contractual disputes (including various sized collections matters) and real estate-adjacent matters.
Elana graduated from The University of Michigan with a degree in Communications, and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law with a concentration in General Litigation. While in law school, she was a recipient of the Dean’s Merit Scholarship, an articles editor for the Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, and a member of the Cardozo Negotiation Strategy & Alternative Dispute Resolution Competition Team. She is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and New Jersey, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.