2026 Honored Guests
Evan H. Krinick
Evan H. Krinick is a litigator and appellate lawyer and Rivkin Radler’s former Managing Partner of 13 years.
Since he joined the firm in 1987, Evan has served as counsel in hundreds of noteworthy commercial, banking, health care, municipal/public authority, tort liability, insurance, and insurance fraud matters. Among his many significant engagements, he represented the Long Island Power Authority in a series of cases arising from its acquisition of the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), the Shoreham Settlement agreement, and in litigation arising from Superstorm Sandy. He has argued more than 20 cases in the New York Court of Appeals and hundreds of cases in other appellate courts in New York and across the country. For decades, he also has been the lead extra-contractual attorney for State Farm in New York. Evan also has helped to develop Rivkin Radler’s Insurance Fraud practice.
Evan has been widely recognized for his professional achievements, including being named to City & State New York’s Law Power 100 list from 2022 through 2025, as well as the City & State Long Island Power 100 List during the same period. He was also included on the Long Island Press Power List from 2021 to 2024 and earned ICON recognition on the publication’s 2025 Power List. In 2025, Long Island Business News honored Evan with a Long Island Business Icon award. His additional recognitions from the publication include being named to the 60 Most Influential Long Islanders List in 2023 and the Power List in 2022. Earlier in his career, he was also inducted into the Long Island Business News 40 Rising Stars Under 40.
He was also named to Best Lawyers in America® for Appellate Practice and Insurance Law from 2018 to 2026 and Litigation-Insurance for the year 2026. Additionally, in 2024 and 2026, Evan was named Lawyer of the Year in Litigation-Insurance Law for the Long Island area by Best Lawyers. This recognition is awarded to individual lawyers with the highest overall peer feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. He was named to New York Metro Super Lawyers for Appellate Law from 2015 to 2025. Since 2023, Evan has been named to Who’s Who Legal: Insurance & Reinsurance. He is among only 769 attorneys from around the world to be recognized in this prestigious publication.
A prolific author, Evan’s column on insurance fraud appeared regularly in the New York Law Journal. He previously was the Long Island Appellate Review columnist for the New York Law Journal and the Uniform Commercial Code columnist for The Banking Journal. For two decades, he wrote the insurance law column for the New York Law Journal’s annual New York Court of Appeals special section.
Evan is a member of Long Island Association Board of Directors. He was a founding member and ultimately the chairman of the Leadership Council of the Long Island Mentoring Partnership and a former member of the Touro Law School Board of Governors.
Before joining the firm, he served for two years as a law clerk to the Hon. Fritz W. Alexander II, Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
Antonios Vournou
Antonios Vournou, CEO of E&A Construction, rose from sweeping and mopping floors to ultimately running a successful business. From the time he was a little boy, Antonios worked alongside his father where he discovered his passion for construction, business, and success. Paired with his motivation and unmatched determination, he turned his passion into a profession. Tony is a graduate of New York Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Architectural Technology. Tony lives in Syosset with his family and enjoys playing hockey in his free time.
