Ankit Kapoor

Ankit Kapoor, a founding partner of the firm, received his B.A. from Hofstra University in 2010, where he majored in Political Science, and his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2018. Mr. Kapoor worked full-time as a New York City Police Officer while attending Brooklyn Law School as an evening student, where he was a Benjamin Ward Scholar. In the NYPD, he worked at the 79th, 75th, and 94th Precincts.

Mr. Kapoor serves on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and co-chairs its Legislation Committee. He’s also active in diversity-focused groups, including the South Asian Bar Association and the Asian American Bar Association of New York. Mr. Kapoor was appointed to the NYSBA's Task Force on Racial Injustice and Police Reform; he is a member of the the New York City Bar Association and the New York County Lawyers Association, where he has been appointed to the Matrimonial Law Committee.

Fluent in Hindi and Punjabi, Kapoor represents a new generation of attorneys—deeply empathetic, highly specialized, and relentlessly committed to doing what’s right, even when it’s not easy.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Kapoor gained extensive litigation experience as an Assistant Corporation Counsel with the New York City Law Department’s Manhattan Torts Division. As part of the pretrial unit, Mr. Kapoor was responsible for overseeing over 100 actions while representing the City of New York and its various municipal agencies in all aspects of tort litigation which included weekly oral arguments, hearings, discovery conferences, extensive motion practice, depositions, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation. He also served as the lead attorney in a false arrest and malicious prosecution trial.

While in law school, Mr. Kapoor spent a semester as a legal extern with the Kings County District Attorney’s Office trial division. He was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Fundamentals of Legal Drafting for obtaining the highest grade in the class taught by a New York State Supreme Court Justice.

“Being a lawyer is not just about knowing the law,” Kapoor said. “It’s about knowing people—and knowing how to help them when they need it most.”

Mr. Kapoor is admitted to practice in New York.