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Warren N. Weaver
Partner
Seven Saint Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202-1636
Phone: 410.347.8757
Fax: 410.223.4177
wweaver@wtplaw.com
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Experience

  • Extensive trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts
  • Extensive product liability experience in cases covering a variety of allegations, including defects in design, flammability of fabric or electronics, defects in manufacturing processes, and inadequate warning
  • Served as lead trial counsel for a defendant in one of the nation's largest consolidated mass tort trials
  • Served as national coordinating defense counsel for a company sued in over 20,000 asbestos cases
  • Successfully appealed a finding of punitive damages against an asbestos defendant which barred the imposition of punitive damages in over 10,000 cases
  • Obtained defense verdicts in numerous asbestos personal injury cases
  • Obtained summary judgments for a manufacturer of asbestos containing products in dozens of personal injury cases
  • Represented petroleum companies in environmental contamination claims, including a class action complaint related to alleged MTBE construction
  • Served as lead counsel for the Baltimore City Public School System in a successful challenge under Maryland's constitution to the State's funding of public education in Baltimore City
  • Served as lead counsel for the Baltimore City Public School System in an ongoing challenge to the Maryland Public Charter School Law
  • Served as lead counsel for the Baltimore City Public School System in a variety of contractual and employment disputes
  • Successful defense of the city of Baltimore and its housing authority in federal class action trial (obtaineddefense verdict of 4-week trial)
  • Obtained summary judgment for a security company in an employment discrimination claim
  • Clerk to the Honorable Joseph C. Howard, United States District Court for the District of Maryland (1982 - 1984)

General Information

  • AV Peer Review Rated: Martindale-Hubbell
  • Former Co-Chair: Products Liability Section
  • Member: Maryland State Bar Association
  • Member: Monumental City Bar Association
  • Member: American Bar Association
  • Member: National Bar Association
  • Member: Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Member: Maryland Association of Defense Trial Counsel
  • Listed in Best Lawyers in America, 2008-present
  • Listed in Maryland Super Lawyers, 2008 - 2011
  • Civic Activities: Member: Board of Directors of the Maryland General Health Systems, Maryland General Hospital and Maryland General Community Health Foundation; Past Board Member of Maryland Institute for Continuing Professional Education of Lawyers, Inc. (MICPEL), Maryland Volunteer Lawyer Service, Baltimore Chapter of American Red Cross, Public Policy Committee of the Greater Baltimore Committee and Executive Committee of the Maryland Association of Defense Trial Counsel; served on Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners (1986-90)
  • Awarded:  Druid Hill Avenue YMCA Black Achievers Award, 1991

Education

  • Georgetown University (J.D. 1982)
  • Georgetown University (B.A. 1979)