Ian Weiss

Ian Weiss

New York, NY Directions
recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Ones to Watch since 2024
Awarded Practice Areas
Insurance Law
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Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP

3 Best Lawyers awards

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Biography

Ian is a trial and appellate attorney with extensive experience litigating complex commercial disputes in arbitration, federal court, New York’s Commercial Division, Delaware’s Court of Chancery, and other state courts across the country. He has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a New York Metro Rising Star, by Best Lawyers as among the “Ones to Watch” in insurance law, and by Lawdragon as a member of the Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation.

Ian has successfully represented clients in a wide range of cases, including a brokerage-fee dispute against a large financial advisor, insurance coverage lawsuits on behalf of policyholders, a litigation over the ownership of artwork, an antitrust class action, and a cross-border judgment-enforcement proceeding. He has examined witnesses at trial, won appeals in New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and prevailed in oral arguments at both the trial and appellate levels.

Earlier in his career, Ian practiced at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where his matters included some of the highest-profile commercial cases in the country. He also clerked for the Honorable Edward R. Korman in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Works at
Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP

3 Best Lawyers awards

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Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP logo

Locations

New York, New York
212-344-5400
26 Broadway
New York, NY 10004

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania, J.D., graduated 2018
  • Bard College, B.A.

Bar Admissions

  • New York, New York State Bar Association

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 2027 for work in:
  • Insurance Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Appellate Practice
Awards:

  • Super Lawyers: Rising Stars 2024-2025

  • The 2025 Lawdragon 500 X – The Next Generation

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Case History

Cases
  • Representative Matters
  • Represented the managing partner of a Washington, D.C.-based law firm in an arbitration before the American Arbitration Association; as lead counsel, won a pre-hearing motion dismissing all claims against the client, including multimillion-dollar claims for fraudulent inducement, negligent misrepresentation, and rescission of a partnership agreement.
  • Represented a health technology startup in a multimillion-dollar brokerage-fee dispute against a major financial institution; as lead appellate counsel, persuaded New York’s Appellate Division, First Department, to award the startup summary judgment, and persuaded New York’s Court of Appeals not to review that decision.*
  • Won reversal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a dispute over ownership of artwork by Jean-Michel Basquiat; as lead appellate counsel, persuaded the court to reinstate the client’s claims for conversion and declaratory judgment.*
  • Represented a Major League Baseball team, the Washington Nationals, in a dispute against the Baltimore Orioles over the value of television rights fees; the Nationals won a victory in the New York Court of Appeals affirming a nearly $100 million arbitration award.*
  • Successfully defended Elon Musk against Twitter’s motion to compel production of his emails in Twitter’s Delaware lawsuit to require him to purchase the company; the court’s ruling that Musk’s emails about the Twitter transaction in his Tesla and SpaceX accounts were protected by attorney-client privilege was covered in popular media and legal scholarship.*
  • Represented a bioenergy company in a jury trial in New York’s Commercial Division against large insurers, seeking damages for their bad-faith delay in paying claims arising from a fire; defeated all of the insurers’ pretrial motions in limine and won a novel motion excluding evidence that the company could have mitigated its damages by obtaining funds from other sources while awaiting payment from its insurers; the matter settled more than a week into trial.*
  • Represented a global restaurant and nightlife brand in a bad-faith insurance coverage action against its insurer and insurance broker arising from the denial of coverage for business-interruption losses during the COVID-19 pandemic; after extensive discovery, the matter resolved in a favorable settlement for the client.*
  • Represented a class of plaintiffs in an antitrust class action in the Southern District of New York alleging that five major banks conspired to manipulate a key benchmark for the price of gold; the case settled for $152 million.*
  • Defended a Chinese national in an action in New York Supreme Court to enforce a Chinese court’s judgment; following an evidentiary hearing, the court dismissed all claims against the client due to defective service and lack of personal jurisdiction.*
* Denotes representations undertaken prior to joining Schlam Stone & Dolan LLP.

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