Jennifer Weed is an associate in the Industrial and Consumer Product Liability Practice Group in the Philadelphia office of Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone & DiSipio. She concentrates her practice in the pharmaceutical, automotive and medical device industries in product liability cases. Ms. Weed also has extensive experience in medical malpractice litigation, representing hospitals and physicians.
After 15 years of practice as a litigation attorney in Texas and New Mexico, Ms. Weed relocated to Pennsylvania in 2006. She has tried cases in state and federal courts, and has represented many high-profile corporate clients in numerous arbitrations. Ms. Weed has also been a presenter at several seminars on legal writing. She was a co-editor of the Pennsylvania chapter of Business Torts: A Fifty State Compendium, published by the Aspen Law & Business Institute. While in New Mexico, she served as the Product Liability Section Editor for DLA Defense News.
In her practice, Ms. Weed takes a goal-oriented, cost effective approach to litigation. She believes in evaluating the merits of each claim early on, and tries to resolve cases as efficiently and expeditiously as possible. Representative cases and published opinions include: Sheridan v. NGK Metals Corp., --- F.3d ---, 2010 WL 2246392 (3d Cir. 2010); Anthony v. Small Tube Manuf. Corp., 580 F. Supp.2d 409 (E.D. Pa. 2008); La Liberte, LLC v. Keating Building Corp., 2007 WL 2108000 (E.D. Pa. 2007); Slack v. Robinson, 2003-NMCA-083, 71 P.3d 514, aff’d, 73 P.3d 826 (2003); Hovet v. Allstate Ins. Co., 2003-NMCA-061, 66 P.3d 980, aff’d, 2004-NMSC-010, 89 P.3d 69; City of Hobbs v. Hartford Fire Ins. Co., 162 F.3d 567 (10th Cir. 1998).
Ms. Weed graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English (cum laude and with departmental honors) from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She earned her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was the Executive Notes and Comments Editor for the law review (Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law). Ms. Weed clerked for the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit following law school, and was an adjunct legal writing professor at Washington University from 1987-1989.
Ms. Weed is admitted to all state courts in Pennsylvania, Texas and New Mexico, the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, the federal district courts in Texas and New Mexico, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third, Fifth and Tenth Circuits.
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In her spare time, Ms. Weed enjoys being a “soccer Mom” to her daughter and spending time with family and friends. She enjoys reading mysteries and, when she has the energy, likes to do aerobics.
