Firm News: Our Firm: Page 17

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…

U.S. News & World Report and peer-review rankings guide Best Lawyers have named New York-based Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. a top national law firm for 2014. “Best Law Firms” recognition for Weitz & Luxenberg comes in the categories of Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions—Plaintiffs (National Tier 1, New York Metropolitan Tier 1, and New Jersey Metropolitan…

Weitz & Luxenberg, P.C. has announced that firm partner Robert J. Gordon has been named the 2011 recipient of the New York Mass Torts Litigator of the Year by the legal publication Best Lawyers. “In the 20 years since Rob has been a part of the firm, his outstanding dedication to our clients and exceptional…

A settlement that held a dozen U.S. oil giants accountable for contaminating the water supply throughout the country has won the notice of one of America’s most influential legal organizations and put the legal team behind the lawsuit in the running for the Public Justice 2009 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award. Named as finalists…