Atty. Michael P. Roberts
I have been with Weitz & Luxenberg since the very beginning. Throughout those years, in my role as a senior trial attorney, I have been able to help many people suffering from debilitating diseases and incapacitating personal injuries.
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Michael P. Roberts is a Senior Trial Attorney based in New York, New York, practicing at Weitz And Luxenberg P C. They have 40+ years of legal experience, licensed to practice since 1986. Admitted to practice in New York U.S. District Court (New York Southern and Eastern) (1986). Educated at Hofstra University School of Law (J.D., 1986) and University of Wisconsin (B.A., 1983). Active member of Associations and Licenses •American Bar Association •Association of Trial Lawyers •New York State Trial Lawyers •Associates Jewish Lawyers Guild. Serands clients in New York, NY and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- I have been with Weitz & Luxenberg since the very beginning
- Throughout those years, in my role as a senior trial attorney, I have been able to help many people suffering from debilitating diseases and incapacitating personal injuries
- I have obtained for my clients some of our firm’s largest mesothelioma and asbestos lung cancer verdicts
- I have also obtained some of our firm’s largest verdicts for people injured in construction and motor vehicle accidents and for those injured by defective products
- I am quite proud of what our firm has been able to accomplish.” Weitz & Luxenberg is home to outstanding and supremely talented personal injury attorneys
- Among them: Michael P. Roberts, repeatedly recognized as a Super Lawyer and also as a Best Lawyer
- Mr. Roberts joined Weitz & Luxenberg more than a quarter-century ago
- A few years after starting with the firm, he became a member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy - a nonprofit organization at the forefront of showing up-and-coming attorneys how to be highly effective legal advocates
- NITA soon afterward began utilizing Mr. Roberts to teach law students the winning ways of trying cases
- More recently, he has taught moot-trial classes at Hofstra University School of Law
- The New York State Trial Lawyers Association, too, has drawn upon the expertise of Mr. Roberts - specifically, to instruct members in the art and science of examining expert medical witnesses on the courtroom stand
- Apart from law practice, Mr. Roberts is actively involved with the Children’s Medical Foundation, United Jewish Appeal, Working Organization for Retarded Children and Adults, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and Hoops 4 Hope
- He also volunteers as a coach of community soccer, basketball and baseball teams
- Among Mr. Roberts’ personal pursuits are travel, golf and long-distance running - to date, he has participated in four New York City marathons
- Mr. Roberts has been named one of the: •Top Attorneys in the New York Metro Area from 2009 to present. •Top Lawyers in New York from 2009 to present. •Best Attorneys in New York from 2011 to present. •Best Lawyers in New York Super Lawyers from 2010 to present. •Top Lawyers in America from 2011 to present. •Best Lawyers of America from 2010 to present
- Key Verdicts •$25 million •$53 million
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Practicing law in New York. Legal matters in New York are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in New York are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate New York state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in New York brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in New York courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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