Melissa S. Weiner is a partner and civil litigator whose work is squarely focused on combating consumer deception. Her experience is expansive, including class actions related to consumer protection, product defect, intellectual property, automotive, false advertising and data breach. Ms. Weiner has taken a leadership role in numerous large class actions and MDLs in cases across the country and lectures regularly on complex litigation matters.
Since her admission to the bar in 2007, she has earned appointment in a variety of MDL’s and class actions throughout the country. She was recently appointed as the Co-Chair of the Plaintiff Steering Committee in In Re: Change Healthcare, Inc. Customer Data Security Litigation and as a member of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, MDL No. 1:23-md-03083-ADB (D. Mass.), two of the largest data breach MDLs in the country. Additionally, she chairs the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in In Re Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Marketing & Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation, No. 1:16-md-02695-JB-LF (D.N.M.), where she co-led the strategy on class certification, which resulted in achieving class certification for a class of cigarette purchasers.
A significant contributor to her professional community, Ms. Weiner serves on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Development Committee for Public Justice. Ms. Weiner is an active member of the Minnesota bar, and a former Co-Chair of the Mass Tort and Class Action Practice Group for the Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association where, in collaboration with the bench, she helped institute new recommended procedures for inclusion of newer and diverse attorneys in key litigation roles to combat the steep decline of in-court opportunities that disproportionally impacts women, diverse attorneys and other underrepresented groups. She also currently serves on the Minnesota Bar Association Food & Drug Law Council. Dedicated to her identity as a Jewish lawyer, Ms. Weiner is also the Co-Chair of the Twin Cities Cardozo Society, an affinity group of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Jewish Federations, which is the leading Jewish lawyers network serving the community. Ms. Weiner also serves on the Partners Council for the National Consumer Law Center.
In recognition of her outstanding efforts in the legal community, each year since 2012, Ms. Weiner has been named a Super Lawyers Rising Star by Minnesota Law & Politics.
Ms. Weiner has been appointed to leadership positions in the following MDLs and consolidated cases:
- In Re: Change Healthcare, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, (D. Minn.) (Appointed as the Co-Chair of the Plaintiff Steering Committee in the Patient Track);
- In re MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (D. Ma.) (Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee);
- In Re: Fairlife Milk Products Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation (N.D. Ill.) (Appointed Interim Co-Lead Counsel);
- In Re Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company Marketing & Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation (D.N.M.) (chair of the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee and member of the Plaintiffs’ Oversight Committee);
- In Re: Blackbaud, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation (D.S.C.), nationwide data breach class action, (appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee);
- Dusko v. Delta Airlines, Inc. (N.D. Ga.), a nationwide breach of contract class action (appointed as Co-Lead Class Counsel);
- In re Apple Inc. App Store Simulated Casino Style Games Litigation (N.D. Cal.), a multi-state statutory class action (appointed to Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee);
- In Re Samsung Top-Load Washing Machine Marketing, Sales Practices & Product Liability Litigation (W.D. Okla.), (appointed to Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee), a nationwide class action regarding a design defect in 2.8 million top loading washing machines, which resulted in a nationwide settlement;
- In Re Windsor Wood Clad Window Product Liability Litigation (E.D. Wis.), a nationwide class action regarding allegedly defective windows, which resulted in a nationwide settlement (Appointed Interim Executive Committee Member);
- In Re: Luxottica of America, Inc. Data Security Breach Litigation (S.D. Ohio) (Appointed Interim Executive Committee Member);
- Culbertson v. Deloitte Consulting LLP (S.D.N.Y.) (Appointed to Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee), a nationwide data breach class action.
