Attorney Profile

Alana Yakovlev

Alana is the founding partner of Walk Free Law, with office locations throughout Florida, California, New York and New Jersey. The law firm practices business litigation and defense and white collar criminal defense.

Alana Yakovlev has always excelled at academics, attending college at the young age of 16 and graduating with honors. Alana graduated from New York Law School after attending UC Berkeley and UCLA for her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. Alana has received numerous awards and honors for her academics and is also admitted to practice law in California, New York, New Jersey and Florida, as well as many U.S. District Courts.

Prior to founding Walk Free Law, Alana Yakovlev served as a trial lawyer for several firms, a legal analyst for Bloomberg, clerked for a New York Supreme Court judge and interned for the District Attorney’s office.

Alana currently serves as in-house counsel for various business organizations and of counsel to several prestigious law firms. Alana Yakovlev was also a partner with the national litigation firm, Lydecker LLP.

She has received media attention for her successful results in high profile cases, defending members of La Cosa Nostra and other white-collar cases.Alana has been nominated as a Super Lawyer from 2013 – 2023, an honor reserved for those lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice. Only 2.5 percent of the attorneys in California are named to the Rising Stars list each year. She has also been selected to be a member of The National Trial Lawyers Organization as the Top 100 Trial lawyers in the country as well as selected to the list of Top 40 Under 40. This is an elite and exclusive membership based on performance as an exceptional trial lawyer.

As an aggressive trial attorney, her professional experience in working closely with clients has led to spectacular case results. Alana Yakovlev knows how to prepare a winning criminal defense case and how to do it quickly and efficiently. Her biggest inspiration is a challenging case, especially when others say “it can’t be done”. Time and again, the case results speak for themselves.

Alana Yakovlev serves as a Board member on several not for profit organizations, for lone soldiers and cancer patients, Chayal el Chayal and the Living Waters Foundation for Health. Alana Yakovlev speaks fluent Spanish and Russian and is proficient in Italian and Hebrew. Alana prides in maintaining a pro bono docket through her work with the Aleph Institute for Jewish Prisoners, which has led her to be nominated and selected to *the Mentsch List published in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.

Alana Yakovlev has proven a winning track record in defense of her clients and has developed a great reputation with the District Attorneys and United States Attorneys Offices. She has been frequently featured on Court TV, Fox News and News Max as a legal commentator on cases making headlines in the nation and internationally.