Michael P. Zweig has a diverse national litigation practice with an emphasis on complex litigation, business torts, entertainment and media litigation and employment/contract matters.

Notable corporate representations have involved clients from a wide variety of industry groups, including media and advertising, financial services, film, television and theatre, real estate and insurance brokerage.

Mr. Zweig has litigated and arbitrated cases throughout the United States, frequently through trial, and has represented numerous clients in high profile, high-stakes litigation involving false advertising and deceptive trade practices (including Attorney General investigations), shareholder, partnership and accounting disputes, contract, right of publicity, defamation and a wide variety of employment-related litigation (restrictive covenant/trade secret litigation, discrimination, harassment).

In 2001-2002, he served as counsel to the S.D.N.Y. Special Master with respect to the settlement of the Austrian Holocaust Litigation.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Zweig served as special counsel to the New York State Assembly on Environmental Conservation, coordinating New York State’s Love Canal investigation. He also conducted extensive legislative hearings concerning the dumping of hazardous substances throughout western New York State.

Mr. Zweig has also authored the Entertainment Litigation chapter appearing in a widely circulated federal court practice treatise. In addition, he has been a speaker on issues relating to media and advertising, class actions, email and electronic discovery, and crisis public relations, at continuing legal education seminars sponsored by the American Bar Association, the Bureau of National Affairs, the UCLA Law Symposium and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.