Weber, Mark J.
PRACTICE AREAS
Defense counsel in numerous complex matters, including construction, toxic tort, mass tort, class action, commercial, corporate dissolution, products liability, environmental, personal injury, subrogation, business interruption, long term care, insurance, and reinsurance.
Mr. Weber has briefed and argued many complex motions for his clients. He has also conducted extensive direct and cross-examinations of witnesses at deposition and hearing and been involved in many arbitrations, mediations, trials, and appeals in state and federal courts, as well as before arbitration and mediation panels.
Mr. Weber has represented major companies in construction, project managements, engineering, financial services, insurance and reinsurance. He has also handled commercial litigation involving the theft of intellectual property, misappropriation of trade secrets, and bankruptcy.
Mr. Weber has also counseled professional engineers, construction and project managers regarding permissible business structures for the provision of "design-build" services in New York and various New England States. He has advised multi-national entities regarding the corporate dissolution of US operations and related corporate and litigation management strategies. Mr. Weber has also been integrally involved in lobbying federal and state representatives with respect to complex and controversial legislation on behalf of major corporate clients.
Before joining the firm, Mr. Weber was with Eastman Kodak Company for nearly a decade, where he held various marketing, training, and management positions in Kodak's Office Imaging Group.
ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS
New Standard for Punitive Damages Awards: Exxon Shipping Co. v. BakerBuilding Catastrophe Litigation: Considerations for Construction and Design Professionals, Building Owners, Landlord's, and Tenants-To Whom is a Duty Owed, and From Whom can Recovery be Had?
A Future for Design-Build in New York?
Orbit of Duty-Limitations and Implications in Catastrophic Property Losses
Possible Exit Strategies for the Asbestos Mass Tort Mess
Mold and "Sick Building Syndrome" An Overview-Revisited for Construction, Design Professionals
E-Discovery Changes To The Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure; Obligations and Requirements Concerning Electronically Stored Information
Who Bears The Costs Of Production Of Electronically Stored Information?
No Delay Here; New York Governor Quickly Ratifies New Legislation to Ease the Strain on Late-Notifying Insured
Allstate Insurance Company v. American Home Assurance Company, New York's Appellate Division, First Department Finds There Are Limited to a Reinsurer's Obligation to Follow the Fortunes of a Cedent's Post-Settlement Allocation
Recent Developments in Reinsurance Law
ADMISSIONS
New York, 1993
New Jersey, 1993
COURT ADMISSIONS
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
New York State Courts
U.S. District Courts for the District Of New Jersey
New Jersey State Courts
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States
EDUCATION
B.A., cum laude, Pace University, 1984
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 1992
Editor, Fordham Entertainment, Media & Intellectual Property Law Journal
