For over four decades, Weiss and Associates, LLC has been providing bold and fearless representation of individuals that have been seriously injured, whether by physical harm, property damage, or damage to economic interests. Our team of experienced trial lawyers have dedicated their careers to ensuring that people and companies that commit wrongful conduct are held accountable for their actions. In doing so, Weiss & Associates have consistently obtained the highest recoveries possible for our wronged clients. The attorneys of Weiss & Associates are not afraid to fight for your rights, even if means bringing your case to court. Robert Weiss, Yehuda Smolar and William Cromwell have each tried over 100 jury cases to conclusion.
Members of Weiss & Associates are admitted to the Courts of Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Washington, District of Columbia, Federal District and Appellate Courts, and the United States Supreme Court. Our attorneys have served as counsel in numerous cases across the country and around the world.
Whether you have been seriously injured and are searching for superior legal representation or you are not even sure if you have a case, Weiss & Associates would be pleased to hear from you. We will gladly evaluate all possible cases at a complimentary consultation and are always happy to answer any questions you might have.
YEHUDA SMOLAR
Practiced law for 28 years, exclusively in the area of Plaintiff’s work and concentrating in cases involving catastrophic injuries, involving trucking cases, products liability and medical malpractice cases. Mr. Smolar pioneered the area of Hedonic damages in Georgia when he had a specific award from a jury for Hedonic damages in 1990. It is still the only verdict in Georgia where Hedonic damages were awarded as a separate element of damages in a wrongful death case. Mr. Smolar has received seven and eight figure verdicts and has tried cases in Georgia and in other states. He has been active with the American Trial Lawyers Association and the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and has been involved in shaping legislation that impacted the area of personal injury law. His case of University Hospital v. Brown resulted in the Georgia Supreme Court holding hospitals liable for the actions of non-employee physicians and his case in Kaufman v. Jansen Pharmaceuticals eliminated direct appeals in cases involving interlocutory issues where a party claims that a privilege involved in discovery makes the case directly appealable without the need for a certificate of immediate review.
MARISSA C. LAU
Ms. Lau’s practice is concentrated in the area of class actions, mass torts, toxic torts, and securities. Ms. Lau is a member of the Bar of New York (2004) and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, American Association for Justice, and Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association. She is a graduate of the University of California at Irvine (B.A. 2001) and Syracuse University College of Law (J.D. 2004) where she was a member of the Law & Technology Law Review and Syracuse Moot Court Honor Society. She was born in San Francisco, California.
ZACHARY C. COHEN
Mr. Cohen’s practice is concentrated in the area of class actions, mass torts, auto accidents, and securities. Mr. Cohen is a member of the Bar of New Jersey (2008), the Bar of New York (2008), and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association. He is a graduate of Binghamton University (B.A. 2002) and New York Law School (J.D. 2005). He was born in New Hyde Park, New York.
ROBERT H. WEISS
Mr. Weiss is licensed to practice law in the State of New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia. Mr. Weiss is admitted to the United States Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States District Courts, including the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He is a member of the American Association for Justice, American Bar Association, American Trial Lawyers Association, Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and the Nassau County Bar Association. He is a graduate of Emory University (B.A. 1980) and Hofstra University School of Law (J.D. 1985).
Robert H. Weiss has been repeatedly invited to appear on the Fox News Network’s O’Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes. He has also been a featured guest on MSNBC’s Scarborough Country and on CNN. Mr. Weiss’s clarion call for reforming Wall Street’s abuse by unscrupulous traders and brokerage firms has been the subject of several featured articles published by The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal.
WILLIAM G. CROMWELL
Practice Areas Medical Malpractice; Catastrophic Injury; Criminal Defense-white collar, general trial practice.
Education Mercer University, J.D., Emory University, B.A.
Admitted 1985
Experience Assistant District Attorney, Savannah, Georgia Chatham County, 1985-1986
Prosecuted major felonies
Private practice Savannah Georgia, 1986 – 1990
Assistant Attorney General, State of Georgia – 1990-1992
Private practice Atlanta, Georgia, 1993 - present
Admitted Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, 1991.
Admitted U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Stephen David Murakami, Esq.
Stephen D. Murakami is a native of the Aloha State. Mr. Murakami attended the University of Oregon as an undergraduate majoring in Renaissance Literature and Asian Studies, graduating with Honors and Phi Beta Kappa in 1974. He returned to Eugene, Oregon to attend the University of Oregon Law School in 1976 to study Ocean Resources and International Law. He also attended Tokyo University Law School for International Law Studies before obtaining his JD in May 1979. Mr. Murakami spent time abroad working for a Japanese International law firm (1979), in Tokyo, Japan, and later moved to Berlin, West Germany in 1980 to take up employment with a German International law firm. Mr. Murakami was admitted to the New York Bar in May 1982. He is also admitted to U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York (1993). Mr. Murakami is also admitted to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (2002). In addition, Mr. Murakami has been admitted Pro Hac Vice in several state and federal courts across the country. His areas of practice include Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Litigation, Mass Toxic Tort, Medical Malpractice and Securities Litigation. His firm represented more than 2,000 WorldCom clients and was successful in obtaining substantially higher recoveries for this group of victims over what they were entitled to under the WorldCom Class Action Settlement. The Weiss Firm was one of only a small handful of firms able to secure a multimillion dollar punitive damages and compensatory award from Citigroup in the WorldCom Arbitrations. Mr. Murakami has served as a Co-Chairman of the American Association for Justice (Formerly ATLA) Securities Litigation Group since 2005. Most recently, The Weiss Firm was appointed to the Bisphenol-A (BPA) Polycarbonate Plastic Multi District Litigation (MDL-1967) Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee, after Mr. Murakami and Mr. Weiss filed the first BPA consumer class action lawsuit in the country, in March 2007.
As a champion of consumers’ rights, Robert Weiss started his practice as a personal injury attorney over 20 years ago. Mr. Weiss’ small law office has turned into a national law firm with offices in Georgia, New York, and Washington, DC, which serves as the center of an organized network of joint venture attorneys and world renowned experts specializing in Personal Injury and Serious Accidents, Mass Torts and Securities Litigation.
As an attorney working in personal injury law for well over twenty years, Mr. Weiss understands the necessary steps to protect the rights of his injured clients. In this world, justice equates to money. We wish it wasn’t that way, but it is. If you get into an accident and the accident is your fault, then we can’t help you because you are not entitled to any money. But, if you are injured through the fault of another, the law mandates that the guilty party make you whole- in other words, pay you. The just payment of money damages is extremely important to the basic perception of fairness in the society. Weiss & Associates, LLC is a national network of some of the best attorneys in the country. We take our mission seriously. We have attorneys well versed in the minute details of thousands of areas of specialized litigations from slip and fall accidents to high-loss securities cases. We understand your needs and in these hard times, you need an attorney who will not only listen to you, but an attorney who will aggressively fight for your rights to obtain a recovery that you deserve.
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