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Law360 calls our Perry Weitz a titan of the legal profession in a fascinating profile piece that appeared in its Nov. 10 online edition. The article by Law360 reporter Juan Carlos Rodriguez traces how the co-founding member of Weitz & Luxenberg helped build the New York personal injury and mass tort law firm into a…

Our Ellen Relkin’s exhaustive familiarity with how choice-of-law conflicts in federal court can materially impact a plaintiff’s ability to obtain punitive damages was showcased in a current American Bar Association newsletter. Writing in the Fall 2014 issue of Mass Torts Litigation, Relkin asserted that plaintiffs’ attorneys need to consider carefully the choice-of-law options laid before…

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…