Mitchel E. Weiss

Practice areas

Personal Injury – General: Plaintiff, Personal Injury – Medical Malpractice: Plaintiff, Personal Injury – Products: Plaintiff

Focus areas

Animal Bites, Birth Injury, Brain Injury, Construction Accident, Delayed or Incorrect Diagnosis, Medical Devices, Medical Malpractice, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Motor Vehicle Defects, Personal Injury – Plaintiff, Pharmaceutical, Premises Liability – Plaintiff, Sexual Abuse – Plaintiff, Slip and Fall, Trucking Accidents, Wrongful Death

Mitchel Ephraim Weiss, an attorney, holds the esteemed position of founding partner at the law firm Sakkas Cahn & Weiss, LLP, situated in New York, New York. His primary focus within the field of law revolves around personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Operating primarily in the New York metropolitan area, as well as serving clients in New Jersey and Connecticut, Mr. Weiss is dedicated to representing individuals and their families who have suffered injuries due to various circumstances, including motor vehicle accidents, slip and fall incidents, construction site mishaps, train and subway accidents, cases of police brutality, lead paint poisoning, and wrongful death.

Graduating with honors from Stony Brook University, Mr. Weiss went on to obtain his law degree from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, successfully graduating in 1985. He has been admitted to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut and has the privilege of appearing before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Throughout his distinguished career spanning three decades, Mr. Weiss has achieved numerous substantial verdicts and settlements for his clients, collectively totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. He has earned membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization comprising attorneys who have secured verdicts or settlements exceeding $1 million on behalf of their clients. Additionally, Mr. Weiss has garnered recognition as one of the nation’s premier trial lawyers from various local and national professional associations. His Martindale-Hubbell rating is “Distinguished,” as determined by the attorney peer-review service Martindale-Hubbell.

Mr. Weiss has consistently received peer endorsements, earning a place on the New York Metro Super Lawyers list each year since 2015. He is also an active and respected member of the Jewish Lawyers Guild, holding office within the organization.

In 2011, Newsweek magazine acknowledged Mr. Weiss as a leader in the field of personal injury law, and in 2015, he was honored as one of the top lawyers by the Global Directory of Who’s Who. Moreover, the National Association of Distinguished Counsel has recognized him as being among the top 1 percent of trial lawyers in the nation.

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