As a nationally recognized personal injury law firm, our attorneys are dedicated to pursuing complex and large scale litigation on behalf of people — especially veterans — across the country.
Since 2010, Weitz & Luxenberg’s Los Angeles office has given the people of California a voice and the legal support they need in the fight against negligent companies and individuals. Our California-based attorneys fight for victims of asbestos exposure and environmental pollution.
Our California personal injury attorneys work hard to help get our clients the compensation they deserve when they suffer due to corporate greed or others’ negligence.
W&L’s LA office now has more than 40 employees. We are located in Century City, approximately 3 miles from UCLA and Westwood.
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Attorneys Benno Ashrafi and Alexandra Shef lead a team of attorneys dedicated to getting justice and compensation for people in the California region and across the U.S. Their team does this successfully for hundreds of clients. Some of the cases the Weitz & Luxenberg California attorneys have won are:
A woman was diagnosed with mesothelioma from exposure to the asbestos dust on her husband's clothes. They sued Algoma Hardwoods, the manufacturer of the fireproof doors her husband installed while working as a carpenter and general contractor.
Our client sued Johnson & Johnson due to the asbestos exposure from using talcum powder. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer after using it for decades. The Jury found J&J's conduct was malicious and despicable.
A worker developed testicular mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure while working in oil refineries and fields. The jury awarded him significant compensation due to the refinery contractor's negligence, causing his life-threatening and terminal cancer diagnosis.
California leads the nation in asbestos-related deaths. The Environmental Working Group estimates the state accounted for 13% to 16% of asbestos-exposure-related deaths in the U.S. from 1999 through 2013.(1) (2)
California’s rapid growth coincided with asbestos’ rising popularity for much of the 20th century. California shipyards worked around the clock during World War II, and the U.S. maintained 140 military bases by the end of the war.(3) Asbestos was widely used in ships and military buildings.
The state’s post-war manufacturing and construction boom created millions of jobs in industries with high risk of asbestos exposure such as construction and manufacturing.(4)
Mining the toxic mineral skyrocketed as an “asbestos rush” hit California in 1959. The United States Geologic Survey estimates miners, exposed to the deadly dust, hauled 1.6 million tons of asbestos from California mines between 1960 and 2002, largely for building and insulation materials.(5)
Empty mines turned Superfund clean-up sites(6) (7) remain as reminders of the danger asbestos posed for people who worked in them or lived nearby. Decades later, many of those hard-working families that built the California we know today are falling victim to asbestos-related diseases.
Weitz & Luxenberg’s California office attorneys are there to fight for them.
The focus of the attorneys in W&L’s California office is to help victims of illnesses related to exposure to asbestos. Our clients are suffering from mesothelioma or asbestos lung cancer due to that exposure. We’re fighting to get them compensation for their pain and suffering.
Many of our asbestos clients worked in the building trades or served their country in the U.S. military. The corporations that make and sell products containing asbestos didn’t care about the damage these items could cause. They didn’t warn our clients that airborne fibers would settle in their lungs and wreak havoc on their health years later.
Our Los Angeles personal injury attorneys are experienced and skilled at locating the manufacturers of these dangerous products and making them pay millions for the damage done.
Other clients have been the victims of the contamination of the very air they breathe. In 2015 and 2016, a natural gas reservoir in California’s Aliso Canyon leaked more than 100,000 tons of methane into Porter Ranch and the surrounding area.(8) It was one of the worst environmental disasters of its kind in U.S. history.
Thousands of people reported health-related concerns. They were also forced to relocate, and the value of their homes plummeted.
Weitz & Luxenberg was already seeking justice for victims of the leak before the gas well was even capped. Our attorneys went to court on behalf of 25 affected families less than two months after the leak began.
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W&L will work timelessly on your behalf and will get you the maximum settlements possible while requiring a minimum amount of effort on your part.
The majority of our work in L.A. is litigation related to asbestos exposure. Many of our clients are people who worked in oil refineries, service people who were in the Navy and worked aboard ships or in shipyards, construction workers, auto mechanics, and contractors laying water and sewer pipes for cities. Some of our clients received secondary exposure through their spouses. They didn’t work directly with asbestos, but they may have been exposed by doing laundry for or being around their loved ones who did.
We handle other personal injury matters, too, where our clients have been injured as a result of negligence. We’re also working on environmental class action litigation cases. These include situations where people are affected by water or air contamination. They may have been made ill or the property value of their homes or businesses may have declined.
That’s exactly right. These are real working people and we are generally suing big companies, manufacturers, refineries – the Exxons, the Chevrons, the General Electrics. We’re just trying to fight for people who deserve justice. Oftentimes, the deck is stacked against our clients because these kinds of companies effectively own the world. Weitz & Luxenberg has been fighting asbestos cases since the 1980s. The firm has knowledge and experience that’s been developed during years and years of asbestos litigation. We certainly bring enormous experience to the legal fight, because our attorneys are very well versed in asbestos litigation.
What’s important for clients to understand is that we are with them through the whole legal process. When you get a big win against a large corporation, that company typically tries to appeal the decision. Lots of other law firms don’t handle appeals in-house. Weitz & Luxenberg does. We’ll be with our clients for the whole case. We won’t refer you to another firm if there’s an appeal. We see your case through.
Yes. We had a case that dealt with workers who come home with asbestos on their clothes and their spouses or other family members are exposed. The employer, a refinery, argued, “We have no duty to protect people outside the refinery from toxic chemicals we know are dangerous.” In other words, the refinery was saying, “We can take these toxic chemicals and spread them throughout the environment.” We had to take that all the way to the California Supreme Court and the ruling came down in our favor. The court basically said to these employers, “No, you can’t just send toxic fumes, dust, asbestos – whatever it is – off your premises and say, ‘good riddance.’” The court told them if you know of dangers, you have to take precautions. Winning that case was very satisfying for our legal team, and more importantly, for our clients. They don’t want to see other families go through the nightmares that they have had to suffer.
It sounds cliché, but W&L attorneys go home every day and feel like they’ve done something good. Because we’re helping people who really need the help – they’re victims. We’re working for people who worked hard all their lives to support their families. They had no idea they’d be dying from these horrible diseases that result from asbestos exposure through their jobs. The companies they worked for knew from early-on the dangers of asbestos, but they put profits over the safety of others. We’re fighting for good guys and we’re fighting the good fight.
We have locations across the country to conveniently serve our clients.
* While our past record doesn’t guarantee future success, it is something you may want to consider when evaluating our experience.
