LeVan Stapleton Segal Cochran LLC is pleased to announce that Lowry B. Yankwich has joined the litigation boutique as an associate.

Lowry graduated Harvard Law School cum laude in 2022 and earned his BA in history from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction.

During law school, Lowry was a teaching fellow for the Harvard Negotiation Workshop, Co-President of the Recording Artists Project, and a research assistant for the Harvard Law School Environmental & Energy Law Program and the Access to Justice Lab. In addition, Lowry worked as a summer associate at Covington & Burling and as a law clerk in the civil division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California.

At Stanford, Lowry was a peer writing tutor and coordinator at the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking, Vice-President of Programming for the Forum for American-Chinese Exchange, and a research assistant for the Chinese Railroad Workers Project and Spatial History Lab. Between college and law school, Lowry worked for the Environmental Defense Fund, where he began as a Lokey Fellow, and for Gemic, a Finnish consulting firm.

An accomplished pianist, Lowry also hosts two music-focused podcasts. His first podcast examining J.S. Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” through the lens of history, dance, and jazz was featured in The Washington Post and at the San Francisco International Piano Festival. His second podcast, “The Tonic,” presented by Tonebase, explores classical music’s links to cultural and technological change through interviews with award-winning artists.

Disclaimer: Lowry is admitted in New York and Pennsylvania. His application to practice in New Jersey is forthcoming. He works under the supervision of licensed attorneys.