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Practice Areas
Litigation
Environmental
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. (1994)
Amherst College, B.A., magna cum laude (1991)
Admissions
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
United States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
United States District Courts of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey
Glenn A. Weiner concentrates his practice in the area of commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on appellate litigation. Mr. Weiner represents clients in a wide range of matters, including corporate governance, defamation, employment related disputes with directors and officers and other employees, real estate, securities, trademark infringement, zoning and other contract and business tort actions. He argues appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Pennsylvania Supreme, Commonwealth and Superior Courts and tries cases in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and other states.
Mr. Weiner also represents clients in other federal and state appellate and trial courts, administrative agencies and arbitrations.
Among his more noteworthy representations are:
obtained multi-million dollar verdict for Fortune 50 company involving breach of retrospective equity adjustment agreement by client's co-investors in foreign power plant project;
obtained order on appeal vacating summary judgment against client on issue of first impression in federal courts regarding application of overtime laws to employee benefits offered through Section 125 "cafeteria plan";
obtained then-record damage award under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act of 1999, recovering the maximum amount of statutory damages available under the Act, plus all attorney's fees and costs and possession of the five domain names in question;
obtained summary judgment for investor in convertible debentures requiring issuer to deliver common stock to the investor worth more than $1.2 million on the investor's $50,000 investment and to pay the investor's attorney's fees and costs;
obtained a zero damages verdict in favor of a property owner after summary judgment was granted against owner for breach of a lease/purchase agreement;
jointly obtained a defense verdict in federal jury trial of a retaliatory discharge claim by former employee;
successfully defended beneficiary of a business trust in an action brought by the trustees of the trust for advancement of the trustees' litigation expenses incurred in a breach of fiduciary duty action against trustees;
defeated preliminary injunction request by neighbors and local residents' groups seeking to enjoin permitted demolition of allegedly historically valuable buildings on behalf of developer seeking to build new construction on the site;
obtained discretionary review by Pennsylvania Supreme Court of intermediate appellate court's decision requiring developer of planned residential development to seek and obtain approval by Philadelphia City Council of any planned development change, no matter how minor. | 