Atty. Michael P. Zweig
Michael P. Zweig is an experienced and accomplished litigator who maintains a diverse national practice with an emphasis on complex litigation, business torts, entertainment and media litigation and employment/contract matters.
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Michael P. Zweig is a employment and litigation attorney based in New York, New York, practicing at Loeb & Loeb LLP. Admitted to practice in New York, New York. Educated at New York University (J.D., 1978) and Cornell University (B.A.). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Litigation - Labor and Employment (2026). Serands clients in New York, NY and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Michael P. Zweig is an experienced and accomplished litigator who maintains a diverse national practice with an emphasis on complex litigation, business torts, entertainment and media litigation and employment/contract matters
- Michael litigates and arbitrates cases throughout the United States, frequently through trial, representing clients in high-profile, high-stakes litigation involving breach of contract, false advertising and deceptive trade practices (including Attorney General investigations), shareholder, partnership and accounting disputes, and right of publicity and defamation suits, as well as a wide variety of employment-related litigation, including restrictive covenant/trade secret litigation, discrimination and harassment suits
- He has represented clients from a wide variety of industries, including media and advertising, financial services, film, television and theatre, real estate and insurance brokerage
- In 2001-2002, he served as counsel to the Southern District of New York Special Master with respect to the settlement of the Austrian Holocaust Litigation
- Earlier in his career, Michael served as special counsel to the New York State Assembly on Environmental Conservation, coordinating New York State’s Love Canal investigation
- He also conducted extensive legislative hearings concerning the dumping of hazardous substances throughout western New York State
- Michael has also authored the Entertainment Litigation chapter appearing in "Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts," a widely circulated practice treatise
- In addition, he has been a speaker on issues relating to media and advertising, ethics, contracts, email and electronic discovery, and crisis public relations, at continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Bureau of National Affairs, the UCLA Law Symposium and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
- Michael is also the co-editor of "Courthouses of the Second Circuit: Their Architecture, History and Stories" (Acanthus Press, October 2015), a book published by the Federal Bar Foundation with the support of the Second Circuit's Committee on History and Commemorative Events
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Employment lawyers represent workers in wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage & hour disputes, and severance negotiations.
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Civil litigation attorneys for breach of contract, business disputes, civil rights, and class action lawsuits.
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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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