About Kush Shukla

Kush Shukla is a Partner at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP, based in the firm's New York City office, where he focuses on mass tort and class action litigation. His practice covers asbestos, product liability, toxic and environmental torts, and employment law.

Before joining Meirowitz & Wasserberg, Kush worked as an associate at two prominent New York City law firms, building experience handling complex litigation for plaintiffs against well-resourced defendants.

Kush earned his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law, where he was a member of the Fordham International Law Journal and received the Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award and the Leitner Fellowship. He pursued additional study of international law in Mexico at Universidad Panamericana and Universidad de Guanajuato. He is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, and Florida, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Southern District of Florida. Kush is a member of the American Association for Justice and the New Jersey Association for Justice, and speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP

These results are credited to Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Richland County jury unanimously awarded $32 million, including $10 million in punitive damages against Kraft Heinz, after finding that secondhand asbestos fibers carried home on work clothes caused Kathy Weist's fatal mesothelioma diagnosis.

South Carolina Court of Common Pleas, 5th Judicial Circuit, Richland County (No. 2020-CP-40-02597) · 2021Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$23.6 millionVerdictTop 20 in Massachusetts · #14

A Boston jury found on Sept. 13, 2024 that Cimbar Performance Minerals misrepresented the safety of its Elite Talc 2000 and that its negligence helped cause a Utah man's mesothelioma, which was diagnosed seven years after he received talc during a 2014 pleurodesis. It is the first known verdict on that theory. The jury awarded about $39.1 million, and the trial judge later cut the future pain and suffering item from $21.5 million to $6 million. About $23.6 million stood.

Massachusetts Superior Court, Boston · 2024Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Fordham University School of Law
JD

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of NY
State Bar of NJ
State Bar of FL
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
American Association for Justice
New Jersey Association for Justice

Awards & recognition

{"title":"Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award","organization":"Fordham University School of Law","year":null}
{"title":"Leitner Fellowship","organization":"Fordham University School of Law","year":null}

Other attorneys at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP

View firm →

Proven verdicts and settlements from other New York firms

Weitz & Luxenberg
Weitz & Luxenberg
$10.9 billion · Weitz and Luxenberg Helps Win $10.9 Billion Roundup Settlement for 125,000 Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Claimants
Levy Konigsberg LLP
Levy Konigsberg LLP
$43.1 Million Verdict Against R.J. Reynolds for Brake Mechanic's Lung Cancer From Menthol and Asbestos
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
Kramer Dillof Livingston & Moore
$265 million · The Amtrak 188 Derailment and the $265 Million Fund for Its Victims
Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
Jacoby & Meyers, LLP
$34 million · Jury Awards $34 Million After Prempro Hormone Therapy Causes Breast Cancer and Double Mastectomy

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.