• Georgetown University Law Center — LL.M. in International and Comparative
    Law, with Distinction

    University of Wisconsin Law School — J.D.

    Occidental College — B.A., English, Magna Cum Laude with Honors

    • New York

    • New Jersey

    • Federal: Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York,
      District of New Jersey, 2d Circuit Court of Appeals

    • Represented seller of business in a hearing before an arbitration tribunal in a $10M dispute arising out of alleged breaches of warranties in a merger agreement.

    • Advocated in a multi-million-dollar insurance coverage action against insurance carrier and third-party administrator arising out of multiple disclaimers of coverage.

    • Represented a former executive of a hedge fund against allegations that she was knowledgeable or complicit in the alleged misappropriation of proprietary trading algorithms.

    • Represented departing partner of an institutional law firm in an action for common law exoneration and a quia timet injunction relating to individual guarantees for the firm’s debt.

    • First-chaired a six-week jury trial in the Commercial Division, resulting in a verdict of no liability against the client for tortious interference with prospective economic advantage.

    • Successfully obtained a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in favor of commercial landowner, prohibiting neighboring occupants’ blocking egress from their parcels.

    • English

  • Adjunct Professor of Legal Writing — Brooklyn Law School, 2017-18

    Panelist, Understanding the Judicial Screening Process in Brooklyn — New York City Bar and Brooklyn Bar Association, Brooklyn, NY, June 13, 2019

    Moderator and Panelist, Legal Issues Confronting Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs, 2023 Business Convening, Sunnyside Shines BID, Queens, NY, May 31, 2023

  • E: michael.weiner@balestrierefirm.com
    T: +1.212.540.7362

MICHAEL J. WEINER | PARTNER

Michael J. Weiner litigates business disputes. Over the past thirty years, Mr. Weiner has handled all stages of civil trials, hearings, and appeals. He deploys his extensive know-how and experience to serve his clients’ business objectives, having tried multimillion-dollar cases to verdict, argued appeals in previously unresolved areas of the law, and settled hundreds of cases on favorable terms. The breadth of the cases Mr. Weiner handles is as expansive as the needs of the business enterprises that he represents. He has advocated in disputes among shareholders and business partners, including derivative suits and proceeding for involuntary dissolution; commercial landlord and tenant matters; breach of contract cases, including conflicts regarding non-compete, non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements; insurance coverage and bad faith contests; unfair competition suits; civil RICO cases, and commercial tort actions.

He is a member of the board of directors of the LGBT Bar Association of Great New York (“LeGaL”), where he presently serves as Co-Chair of the Governance Committee and is the former Co-Chair of LeGaL’s Judiciary Committee. In 2015, LeGaL recognized Mr. Weiner with an award for his outstanding pro bono service at its Newark, New Jersey walk-in clinic.

Mr. Weiner has also served as a Delegate to several independent judicial screening panels in New York and Bronx Counties and as the Administrator of the 2022 New York City Democratic Committee’s Supreme Court Independent Screening Panel. In addition, he is a member of the New York Path to the Bench Working Group of the American Constitution Society.

Frequently Called upon to lecture on business law, the judicial selection process, and advocacy, Mr. Weiner has taught as an adjunct professor of legal writing at Brooklyn Law School.