Michael Werner is a Partner at Slater Slater Schulman LLP. Michael’s clients have often experienced traumatic and life-altering consequences due to a failed medical device, pharmaceutical drug or exposure to environmental toxins. By encouraging his clients to tell their story, and leaving predetermined assumptions aside, Michael ensures that his clients’ voice will be heard.

Michael has been intimately involved in various mass tort litigations for well-known defective medical devices and pharmaceutical drugs, including Accutane, Chantix, DePuy devices, GranuFlo, Incretin Mimetics, Pradaxa, Reglan and Zimmer NexGen. Michael acted as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel in In Re: Plavix Products Liability Litigation before the Supreme Court, New York County. Additionally, Michael was heavily involved in In re: Long Island Power Authority, Hurricane Sandy Litigation—a class action lawsuit seeking to provide monetary recovery for residents of Long Island that were affected by “Superstorm Sandy.”

Michael’s current mass tort litigations include Allergan breast implants, Exactech devices, Maui wildfires, Philips CPAP/BiPAP devices, Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF), Penumbra surgical catheter, Enfamil/Similac baby formula, Roundup and Paraquat herbicides, Elmiron, Uloric and Zantac. Michael also manages the firm’s significant Camp Lejeune litigation– which affords those who nobly served our country the justice they deserve after having been subject to the federal government’s water contamination negligence.

In addition to his mass tort experience, Michael has an extensive background in state and federal court proceedings involving personal injury, general liability, commercial litigation, premises liability and federal statutory violations.

Michael received his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Baruch College in 2004, and his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from St. John’s University School of Law in 2008—where he served as the Managing Editor of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 2009 and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York in 2012.

Michael has been designated a Super Lawyer New York Metro Rising Star each year since 2015, and is a proud member of the Nassau County Bar Association, Suffolk County Bar Association and various professional networking organizations.

 

ASSOCIATIONS

• American Bar Association
• Nassau County Bar Association
• Suffolk County Bar Association

 

ADMITTED

• New York State
• United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
• United States District Court, Southern District of New York

• Class Action Litigation
• Defective Products and Medical Devices
• Drug Litigation
• Mass Torts
• World Trade Center VCF

• Super Lawyer New York Metro Rising Star each year since 2015

• Juris Doctor Degree- St. John’s University School of Law in 2008
• Bachelor of Science- Baruch College in 2004