Edelson PC
Kate Weyers is a Staff Attorney at Edelson PC, where the focus is on litigation support for consumer class actions and mass tort cases since August 2020. Prior experience includes serving as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois College of Law for introductory law classes from September 2019 to August 2020, and a Law Clerk at Murphy Law Group, LLC in the summer of 2019, where significant contributions included preparing legal documents and research for a Supreme Court brief. Additionally, Kate gained experience as a Legal Extern in the Department of Law - Labor Division for the City of Chicago in 2018, conducting legal research and attending hearings. Academic credentials comprise a Doctor of Law (J.D.) degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Illinois College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, supplemented by a study stint at Universitat de Barcelona in 2016.
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Edelson PC
EDELSON PC is a law firm concentrating on high-stake’s plaintiff’s work ranging from class and mass actions to public client investigations and prosecutions. The cases we have litigated -- as either lead counsel or as part of a broader leadership structure -- have resulted in settlements and verdicts totalling over $20 billion. We hold records for the largest jury verdict in a privacy case ($925m), the largest consumer privacy settlement ($650m), and the largest TCPA settlement ($76m). We also secured one of the most important consumer privacy decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court (Robins v. Spokeo). Our class actions, brought against the national banks in the wake of the housing collapse, restored over $5 billion in home equity credit lines. We served as counsel to a member of the 11-person Tort Claimant’s Committee in the PG&E Bankruptcy, resulting in an historic $13.5 billion settlement. We successfully represented dozens of family members who lost loved ones in the Boeing 737-Max plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. We are the only firm to have established that online apps can constitute illegal gambling under state law, resulting in settlements that collectively are worth $200 million. We are co-lead counsel in the NCAA personal injury concussion cases, leading an MDL involving over 300 class action lawsuits. And we are representing, or have represented, regulators in cases involving the deceptive marketing of opioids, environmental cases, privacy cases against Facebook, Uber, Google and others, cases related to the marketing of e-cigarettes to children, and cases asserting claims that energy companies and for-profit hospitals abused the public trust.