Younger will become President-elect of the NYSBA in June 2009, and will begin serving as President in June 2010.
He will be the third Patterson Belknap partner to become President of the NYSBA. He follows one of the firm’s founders, Chauncey Belknap, and its former partner, US District Court Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr., both of whom previously served in this role.
Younger is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the NYSBA. He is a past chair of the NYSBA’s Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, having previously served as Chair of its Securities Litigation Committee and of its ADR Committee.
He served as Transition Director for New York State Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo. He is Counsel to the New York State Commission on Judicial Nomination, which nominates New York’s Court of Appeals Judges, and is a member of the First Department Judicial Screening Committee. In addition, he serves on the Advisory Committee to the Commercial Division of the New York State Supreme Court.
Younger received his BA degree cum laude from Harvard University and his law degree magna cum laude from Albany Law School where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Albany Law Review.
Patterson Belknap, with 200 lawyers, is one of only four firms to be ranked in the Top 10 of The American Lawyer’s “A-List” of elite firms every year since the list’s inception.