Yekaterina “Katya” Chernyak left her first law firm largely because she wanted a firm with a stronger commitment to pro bono work. That brought her to Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in 2009, where she is an associate specializing in bankruptcy matters.
Soon after arriving at Kramer Levin, the supervisor of the firm’s asylum program approached her about assisting a pro bono LGBT client from Belarus, who spoke no English. Chernyak was raised in Belarus and is fluent is Russian; at age 15, she and her family immigrated to the United States, receiving refugee status due to the discrimination against Jews there.
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