Seeger Weiss LLP, Ridgefield Park Office, USA

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Provided by Seeger Weiss LLP

Seeger Weiss is a law firm that represents clients all over the United States, leading history-making and record-setting cases on behalf of individuals, companies, and governments who have been injured or defrauded on an individual or mass scale. In the more than two decades since its founding, the firm has grown alongside its reputation. With more than 100 employees and over 40 attorneys across the country, Seeger Weiss opened its new headquarters in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, in 2017.

When hundreds—or thousands—of people file similar lawsuits across the country, those cases can be combined into a single matter: multidistrict litigation. Seeger Weiss not only focuses on this complex area of law, but it is a leader in the field and is regularly appointed to leadership positions. According to both journalistic and scholarly sources,its attorneys receive among the most leadership appointments of any law firm in the country.

Seeger Weiss is best known for multidistrict mass torts and class actions in both state and federal court—and especially for taking those cases to trial. From offices in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, the firm has represented over 10,000 individuals, companies, and governments across the United States who have been injured or defrauded on a massive scale.

Former classmates at Cardozo Law School, Christopher A. Seeger and Stephen A. Weiss co-founded the firm after years of work at white-shoe firms Shearman & Sterling and Fried Frank. They wanted to sit on the other side of the table: not representing big corporations, but the many people who corporations had hurt. Not long after the firm’s founding, senior partner David R. Buchanan joined the team and formed the core of a formidable team of trial lawyers.

With the resources and dedication to take on the world’s largest corporations, the firm has faced down the likes of Merck, Volkswagen, 3M, Johnson & Johnson, Syngenta, and the NFL—and secured justice for its clients. Working in a broad array of practice areas, the firm has a reputation for leading cases from beginning to end.

Seeger Weiss is committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting attorneys from underrepresented backgrounds. In 2021, the firm launched the Seeger Weiss Diversity Fellowship—perhaps the first of its kind among plaintiff firms. In addition to a salary, the fellowship awards recipients with a charitable contribution to a nonprofit organization of their choice in consultation with the firm. Seeger Weiss is also the primary founder of a need-based scholarship awarded through Cardozo Law School’s Black, Asian, Latino Law Students Association, which has been awarded for nearly a decade.

Philanthropy, volunteer work, and pro bono efforts are core to the values of the firm. For example, Seeger Weiss co-founding partners Christopher A. Seeger and Stephen A. Weiss were appointed in 2008 as general co-counsel of the Badge of Honor Memorial Foundation, the national advocacy group for the widows and children of law enforcement officers that are killed in the line of duty. Additionally, the firm recently hosted a backpack drive for local nonprofit Oasis – Haven for Women and Children, where dozens of backpacks and additional schools supplies were donated to children in need so they could be better prepared for success in school.

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