Hon. Elia Weinbach (Ret.)

Los Angeles

Corporate and Business Litigation; Employment; Professional Liability (Legal/Medical/Accounting); Products Liability and Personal Injury

Judicial Experience

• Presided over a Personal Injury Hub court (2.5 years), a Family Law court (3.5 years) and a Misdemeanor Trials and Arraignments Court (1.5 years).

• Presided over and resolved hundreds of pre-trial and discovery disputes in the Personal Injury Hub court.

• Organized a week long settlement program designed to resolve numerous personal injury cases pending throughout the court system.

• Participated in a similar week-long settlement program designed to resolve a variety of employment-related disputes.

• At the request of other judges, resolved complex business litigation matters, including a highly complex class action legal malpractice matter.

• Member, California Judges Association Ethics Hotline Committee.

Professional Career

• Partner, Trial and Litigation Attorney, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP 1988-2007.

• Partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp for almost twenty years, with a practice consisting of complex business litigation involving a wide variety of sophisticated business contract/tort, securities, and employment-related cases. Tried jury and non-jury cases in both state and federal courts and argued appeals in both court systems and was involved in a number of mediations and arbitrations.

• Tried a number of jury cases in state and federal courts, including the first "reverse bad faith" case in a fidelity insurance claim; a wrongful discharge/whistleblower case involving the termination of a company's "employee of the year"; a medical malpractice case involving malignant hyperthermia; an action for wrongful discharge/retaliation/breach of implied contract; and a multi-million dollar action, alleging fraud/breach of contract/breach of fiduciary duty in connection with the rights of first refusal upon sale of a subsidiary.

• Judge Weinbach was recognized as the Attorney Settlement Officer of the Year by the Central District of California.

• Judge Weinbach is a graduate of NYU, Harvard Law School, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Oxford University.

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