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Two keys that earlier this year led to a $9-billion courtroom victory by Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C., against the maker of the diabetes drug Actos, were revealed Monday when National Law Journal named the New York City-based personal injury firm to its debut list of “America’s Elite Trial Lawyers.” Key Number One — a massive investment…

Eleven Weitz & Luxenberg attorneys were named 2014 New York metropolitan-area “Super Lawyers” and nine more were picked as “Rising Stars” of the legal profession in and around the Big Apple. Heading the list of 2014 “Super Lawyers” are firm co-founders Perry Weitz and Arthur M. Luxenberg, who each have won the coveted title nine times.…

Super Lawyers magazine selected Weitz & Luxenberg attorney Ellen Relkin, Esq., as one of 2014’s top legal professionals in New Jersey for plaintiff class-action and tort litigations. The magazine also named Weitz & Luxenberg attorney Mary Grabish Gaffney, Esq., as a 2014 New Jersey “Super Lawyer Rising Star” for personal-injury litigations involving plaintiffs harmed by…

On Friday, April 4, 2014,  two W&L attorneys are speaking at HarrisMartin’s Mass Tort Litigation Conference with Judge Marina Corodemus (Ret.). Paul Pennock, Esq., Managing Attorney, is speaking on Adverse Events, Personal Injury Proof Defense & Spoliation. Ellen Relkin, Esq., Of Counsel, is participating in a session on Settlement v. Trial —Coordination, Conflicts & Committees.…

Weitz & Luxenberg brain-injury trial attorney Shareef Rabaa has won appointment as president of the National Trial Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40 organization for young attorneys of extraordinary talent and accomplishment.   Rabaa’s selection to the top post was announced in early January; his one-year term as president begins in 2015.   “One of my…