Pierre Ratzki is an associate attorney in our Asbestos Litigation group who focuses on appeals — that means he helps Weitz & Luxenberg defeat attempts by losing defendants to convince a higher court to overturn the verdict or slash the award and, when justice demands it, seek to reverse a loss by our clients. Mr….

Doug Peralta is a client liaison at Weitz & Luxenberg. With more than 14 years of experience collaborating one-on-one with new clients, Doug is an expert at working with people to understand their concerns and goals. Doug represents Weitz & Luxenberg in the Southeast region, and is stationed in Nashville, Tenn. In a typical case,…

Josiah Parker is an associate attorney in our California office and a member of the Asbestos Litigation group there. He joined the firm in 2011, coming highly recommended by Pepperdine University School of Law as a 2010 cum laude graduate and the holder of a juris doctor degree. Mr. Parker, who was born in New…

Michelle C. Murtha brings a special intensity to her role as a Weitz & Luxenberg advocate for the legal rights of the victims of corporate greed. What drives her is a belief that corporations should not escape liability for exposing innocent people to asbestos and causing them to develop mesothelioma, asbestosis or lung cancer. Ms….

Alexandra Shef is very passionate about helping our clients obtain the justice they seek. So passionate is she about her work, in fact, that Super Lawyer magazine counts Ms. Shef among its Rising Star attorneys, naming her to its Top 100 Up-and-Coming Attorneys of Southern California list and to its roster of Top 50 Up-and-Coming…

Associate attorney Justin Weitz adds to the power and prestige of our Asbestos Litigation group with his unceasing, undaunted determination to see callous wrongdoers brought before the bar of justice. Many of the legal skills Mr. Weitz so adroitly brings to bear against those who injure our clients were acquired during his years as an…

Benjamin Darche joined Weitz & Luxenberg in 2004 as an associate attorney in our Asbestos Litigation group. He prosecutes cases against corporations valued at more than $10 billion where clients have been diagnosed with catastrophic cancers caused by asbestos exposure. Before coming to the firm, he served as an assistant district attorney in Queens County,…

Ambre Brandis serves as an associate attorney in the Weitz & Luxenberg Asbestos Litigation group, a position she has held since being welcomed to the firm in 2007. In addition to her role at Weitz & Luxenberg, Ms. Brandis (through the auspices of local nonprofit organizations) also performs pro-bono legal work on behalf of indigent…

Benno Ashrafi oversees the asbestos practice at Weitz & Luxenberg in California. He joined us in 2011 to help our Los Angeles office assemble a driven, client-focused team of personal-injury lawyers, each with his or her own track-record of success in asbestos-cancer/mesothelioma litigation. Mr. Ashrafi entered the practice of law in 2006. His career began…

James S. Thompson draws upon his exhaustive knowledge and formidable lawyering skills as an associate attorney in our Asbestos Litigation group to help victims of mesothelioma, asbestosis and asbestos-related lung-cancer utilize the courts to obtain compensation for the costs of medical care and for lost present and future income. Mr. Thompson — hailing from the…