James V. Weixel, Jr.

Jim Weixel has spent his entire career as a litigator and appellate practitioner in California and Ohio. His clients have ranged from individuals and families to multinational industrial corporations. Regardless of the size of the client or the case, Jim offers the same high degree of professional skill, dedication, and ethics in every instance.

Jim has been heavily involved in professional activities. He is currently serving a three-year term as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco. Jim is active in the Conference of Delegates of California Bar Associations, which proposes legislation and other policy measures of concern to the legal profession. He is also a member of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association, a nationwide organization of attorneys dedicated to representing investors in disputes with the securities industry.

Jim began his career in 1990 at Baughman & Associates in Cleveland, Ohio, where he spent three years as part of a team of national asbestos defense counsel for a multinational industrial corporation. Jim also defended numerous workers compensation claims and related court actions while at the Baughman firm. After becoming licensed in California in 1993, Jim accepted a position as an associate with the San Francisco office of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold, where he continued his practice in asbestos defense and other litigation matters. In 1998 Jim left the Sedgwick firm and worked as a contract attorney for a number of Bay Area law firms, mostly in the asbestos defense arena. He established his own law practice in San Rafael in 1999, where he concentrated on the representation of consumers, small businesses, homeowners, and personal injury plaintiffs.

In early 2002, Jim joined securities and class action litigator George S. Trevor to open the Corte Madera office of Trevor & Weixel LLP, which represented investors, shareholders, consumers, employees, and small businesses in securities arbitration, consumer protection litigation, class actions, commercial litigation, shareholder derivative actions, employment disputes, and other matters. Jim gained substantial appellate experience during his years as a partner in Trevor & Weixel, including contract disputes, anti-SLAPP issues, writ proceedings, settlement enforcement, federal removal jurisdiction, and international commercial arbitration.

Jim obtained his J.D. in 1990 from Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. He was vice-chair of the school’s Moot Court Board of Governors, and was one of only a few students in the program’s history to participate in two moot court competitions in the same year. He also received the Order of the Barrister and the William H. Thomas Foundation Award of Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity for academic and community achievements. Jim graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1986 with a bachelor of science in business administration.

Jim was admitted to the Ohio bar on November 5, 1990 and to the California bar on November 24, 1993. He has been admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the Northern (1993), Central (1998), and Southern (2006) Districts of California, as well as the Northern District of Ohio (1990). He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1994) and the Sixth Circuit (1990). He was admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court in 2006.