Citrin & Co. - Law office was founded in 2019 by attorney Ben-Zion Citrin, who holds several important legal precedents and has rich experience as a journalist and media person. Citrin & Co. - Law office operates in the format and structure of a boutique law firm, handling a limited number of legal disciplines, in which it specializes, and through fruitful collaboration with leading law and accounting professionals.
Citrin & Co. - Law office provides diverse and complex legal services, including ongoing professional and legal counseling for individuals and organizations, commercial and business litigation, and criminal and civil felonies, as well as fiscal civil matters, including administrative, and a basket of services in the field of regulatory matters and corporate enforcement risk management in organizations.
Citrin & Co. - Law office applies in practice the legal-consuming world view of advocate Citrin, as it is reflected in his impressive involvement as a petitioner in class actions and derivative suits, and places at the main core of his activity the most obvious areas of media and press, alongside his expertise in the fields of financial offenses, taxation, family equity management and billing laws.
The Firm’s areas of expertise: class actions; derivative claims; financial (criminal) offenses; taxation (civil); media law, new media and defamation; family equity management; insolvency and charging enforcement.
Advocate Citrin believes and supports alternative methods of dispute resolution through arbitration, mediation and compromise, and is a graduate of professional courses that qualify him, also thanks to his many years of experience in managing and resolving business and interpersonal crises, for these positions as an arbitrator or mediator.
About the Founder-Manager
Advocate Citrin, a lawyer, arbitrator and mediator, has been with the legal system for more than three and a half decades, beginning as a journalist, a legal reporter and a legal editor ("Haaretz-Economy"), and in his last role as the editor of the news broadcast on Israeli television's Channel One; and later as a strategic-media consultant to the Bar Association and its chair, specializing in providing legal marketing services to prominent law firms - large, medium and small. In these settings, Advocate Citrin spent many hours with leading dignitaries of the legal community of many decades, in the corridors of the attorney offices and in the labyrinths of the parliament and government offices.
Advocate Citrin holds a LL.B. degree From Ono Academic College, and studies for BA of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and a graduate of professional courses in arbitration and mediation.
For a number of years, Advocate Citrin has been holding a Knesset permit to operate as a licensed lobbyist for Hatzlacha Association and other clients.
Advocate Citrin has taken part and been involved during recent decade in dozens of important legal proceedings. Throughout the years, Advocate Citrin has petitioned before various courts, both as a private petitioner and as a member of the managing committee of Hatzlacha Association - the consumer movement for the promotion of a fair economic society. His achievements include:
Source protection - President of the Supreme Court in a Precedent ruling: A journalist does not have to prove the identity of the journalist source that provided him with the piece of news ("Citrin rule").
Publication of the names of candidate for judge positions - New rules have been set under which the Judges Judicial Appointments Commission will publish the candidates' names in order to allow the public to oppose the nomination.
Expanding the locus standi of a class action plaintiff - Given the real difficulty in locating a class-action plaintiff, a consumer organization that does not hold the securities may file a class action.