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Michael J. Weaver , Esq.

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- Business Commercial
- Class Action
- Employment Law
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Mass Tort
- Professional Liability
- Real Property
- Securities
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Michael J. Weaver, Esq. has four decades of experience handling a wide range of legal issues, including 25 years of experience as an arbitrator and 20 years as a mediator. He specializes in the resolution of complex domestic and international matters across a broad spectrum of practice areas.

With particular expertise in partnership disputes and professional liability claims, Mr. Weaver is well suited to working with firms, companies, and individual partners and employees to resolve internal and external conflicts.

Prior to his career as a full-time neutral, Mr. Weaver tried more than 80 cases to verdict, judgment, or award. He handled matters in state and federal forums, including bankruptcy court, in multiple jurisdictions.

A longtime pilot who flies on a weekly basis, Mr. Weaver is a fellow in both the American College of Commercial Arbitrators and the American College of Trial Lawyers. In addition, he is a former director of the National Conflict Resolution Center.

Representative Matters

Business Commercial

Extensive experience mediating and arbitrating complex domestic and international business-related disputes
Particular expertise resolving intra-firm disputes between partners involving breach of fiduciary duty, self- dealing, non-disclosure, fraud, routine negligence, intellectual property, and employment issues

Employment Law

Experience handling wide range of employment-related claims, including numerous class actions, involving wrongful termination, breaches of contract and confidentiality agreement, sexual harassment, wage and hour, misclassification, and meal and rest break period violation issues

Intellectual Property

Chair on three-arbitrator panel for multi-week arbitration between software developers over alleged copyright violations, breach of contract, and other claims arising from use of interface technology to match hardware and software application
Served as arbitrator, mediator and formerly as a litigator on cases involving patent maintenance and prosecution, enforcement, infringement and invalidation, copyright, trade name, trade dress and likeness, misappropriation of trade secrets, breaches of contractual limitations on competition and licensing, and legal malpractice for failure to properly prosecute patents
Matters involving complicated damages issues, including establishing hypothetical license rates and injunctive relief

Native American Law

Extensive experience regarding issues involving limitation of jurisdiction, waiver of sovereignty and inter- and intra-tribal relations
Handled as litigator at trial and appellate level inter-tribal disputes over joint operation of health center developed and operated for benefit of nine independent tribes. Also handled civil disputes involving personal injury and business operations conducted off tribal lands
Three-panel arbitration involving dispute between gaming tribe and its development partner and casino operator. All aspects of gaming licensing and casino development and operations were raised during seven-week hearing

Professional Liability

Significant expertise resolving disputes related to professional liability and malicious prosecution claims involving law and accounting firms, as well as individual lawyers and accountants

Securities

Arbitration involving securities fraud and breach of fiduciary duty claims over manner in which trades were booked and profits and losses divided between investors and management
Experience handling scores of shareholder class action securities and derivative matters

Michael J. Weaver