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About Melissa Ryan Reitberg
Melissa Ryan Reitberg is an associate attorney at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP, where she focuses on personal injury and toxic exposure litigation, including asbestos cases. She is known for thorough case preparation and detail-oriented analysis.
Melissa began her legal career working in arts law and corporate transactional matters before transitioning to litigation, where she now advocates for plaintiffs against well-resourced corporate defendants. Before law school, she worked as a professional dance performer, theatre artist, model, and circus artist, experiences that shape her empathy for clients and her presence in the courtroom.
She earned her Juris Doctor from the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University and her bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College, where she completed a double major in Finance and Dance. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, including the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Melissa is a member of the New Jersey Association for Justice and serves as VP of Membership for the Jewish Lawyers Guild. She has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and as a Top 40 Under 40 attorney by the National Trial Lawyers, and is a published legal blogger and legal journal contributor.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Meirowitz & Wasserberg, LLP
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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.
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.
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