John J. Weinholtz
Partner

Practice Areas

Experience

John Weinholtz concentrates in defending product liability and toxic tort cases and has over 20 years of experience defending product manufacturers and sellers. Mr. Weinholtz has extensive experience in mass tort cases, including the Love Canal litigation. He also is experienced in defending cases involving industrial machinery and consumer products, asbestos, silica, chemical products, cars, trucks, and construction equipment. Further, he is experienced in class action litigation and in counseling clients on product recall issues and working with state and federal agencies in conducting recalls.

Mr. Weinholtz has lectured extensively on subjects including toxic tort and environmental lawsuits, product warnings, trial techniques including the examination of expert witnesses, rules of federal and state practice, and federal and state legislation regarding class actions and product liability law.

Admissions
Mr. Weinholtz is admitted to practice in New York and before the United States District Courts for the Western and Northern Districts of New York.

Affiliations
Chair of the Product Liability Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section -- 2004; President of the Defense Trial Lawyers Association of Western New York -- 2003; member of the ABA’s Litigation Section, Trial Practice Committee; member, New York State Bar Association, Tort, Insurance and Compensation Law Committee and CPLR Committee; member, Erie County Bar Association, Negligence Committee and State and Federal Practice Committees.

Publications
“Defending ‘No Injury…Yet’ Medical Monitoring Claims in Class Action Settings,” The Brief (ABA Publishing, Vol. 30, No. 3, Spring 2001).

“Recent Developments in Products, General Liability and Consumer Law,” published in the Winter 1998 edition of the ABA’s Tort and Insurance Law Journal.

“The Restatement (Third) Adopts a ‘Reasonable Person’ Standard for the Post-Sale Duty to Warn: What Does It Mean for Product Sellers?,” presented at The Network for Trial Law Firms Seminar in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 1998.

Pro Bono

As part of a commitment to give back to the community, Mr. Weinholtz has dedicated substantial time to pro bono matters. He also is a member of the firm's Pro Bono Committee, which formulates policy and strategy for pro bono efforts on a firm-wide and national level, and he is the Buffalo Office coordinator for local pro bono efforts.

Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, J.D., cum laude
State University of New York at Buffalo, B.A., magna cum laude