Yoon & Yang has expanded its litigation practice with the addition of former judges Dongkeun Lee, Jae Ho Hwang and Sungwook You as partners.
Dongkeun Lee, a former presiding judge at the Seoul High Court, brings more than 25 years of experience. Notably, as a judicial policy deliberation officer at the National Court Administration, he played a vital role in the revision of the Criminal Procedure Code and the introduction of the citizen participation system (also known as jury trial) in Korea. His experience also includes some of the most complex criminal, civil and administrative litigation at the Seoul Central District Court (criminal panel division), the Seoul Western District Court (warrants), and the Seoul High Court (labor division).
Jae Ho Hwang, a former judicial researcher at the Supreme Court and a former presiding judge, brings deep expertise in commercial disputes. His career includes handling high-profile cases for major Korean conglomerates as a judicial researcher (which is equivalent to a Supreme Court law clerk in the US) at the Korean Supreme Court’s commercial division. Earlier in his career, he also served at the Seoul Central District Court and the Seoul Rehabilitation Court, where he handled a broad spectrum of commercial law issues, including management rights disputes, finance, insurance and rehabilitation. He is a co-author of the Commentary on Commercial Law: Company (6th Edition), published by the Korean Society of Judicial Administration. In 2023, he was recognized as one of the outstanding judges by the Daejeon District Bar Association. Before joining the judiciary, he worked for Samsung Life Insurance, where he gained practical insights on financial and insurance matters.
Sungwook You, a former judicial researcher at the Supreme Court and a former presiding judge, has 18 years of experience on the bench. Notably, he served as a judicial researcher of the Supreme Court of Korea (tax and civil division) for four years from 2019 to 2023, and he is the only Korean judge who participated in the prestigious long-term research program at the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Germany. His multi-disciplinary practice extends beyond tax law, as amplified by his tenure at the Seoul Administrative Court and his co-authorship of the third edition of the Commentary on Criminal Law. In 2018, he was recognized as an Outstanding Judge by the Seoul District Bar Association, praised for his fair and impeccably reasoned judgment.
