Overview
Jeremy Y. Weltman is a shareholder and a member of the firm's Litigation Department. Jeremy frequently works with the firm’s Commercial Real Estate, Corporate Divorce / Business & Shareholder Disputes, Franchise Law, Construction Law, and Hospitality Practice Groups as part of his wide-reaching litigation practice focuses on finding successful resolutions to his clients' legal issues. Jeremy's hands-on commercial litigation experience includes handling all sorts of complex commercial and business litigation, employment litigation, Wage Act litigation, probate litigation, real estate disputes, construction matters, civil rights litigation – including ADA accessibility, accommodation issues, and high impact class action work – municipal disputes, appellate advocacy, and other tort-based litigation matters.
With a no-nonsense, direct approach, Jeremy is a practical, results-oriented attorney who prides himself on always thinking two-steps ahead of his clients' adversaries. In so doing, Jeremy has adeptly litigated and negotiated disputes for a wide range of clients including Fortune 500 corporations, mid-sized and small businesses which span across industries, including a variety of hospitality businesses, professional services offices, property owners and developers, commercial tenants and landlords, condo associations, contractors, and disenfranchised individuals. Clients take comfort in knowing that Jeremy has shown no fear in taking a “tough case” through trial. To this end, Jeremy has successfully tried numerous cases in Massachusetts state and Federal District courts, briefed and argued matters in the Massachusetts Appeals Court and First Circuit Court of Federal Appeals, and has also represented clients in alternative forms of dispute resolution, such as arbitration and mediation, with favorable results.
Notably, Jeremy has also earned a strong reputation for protecting the civil rights of the disabled and victims of discrimination. He aggressively pursues the rights of the disenfranchised, both on an individual and class-wide basis, in civil rights infringement cases brought against government institutions and the private sector in federal and state courts.
ASSOCIATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS
- Massachusetts Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- Arbitration Mediation Agency Neutral & Dispute Association (AMANDA)
- Angier Elementary School PTO, Co-President
- The Windsor Club, Board Member
- Cradles to Crayons, Volunteer
HONORS & AWARDS
- Selected by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as a 2022 Go-To Business Litigation Lawyer
- AV® Preeminent™ Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Massachusetts "Rising Stars", recognized by the publishers of Law & Politics and Boston Magazine, 2013- 2019
- American Society of Legal Advocates, Massachusetts Litigation Top 40 Under 40 Attorney
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Golden Key Honor Society
- Hornbeck Scholar Award, University of Denver
Publications
- Rare Injunction Shuts Down Pistol Range Until Safety Improvements Made, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (September 2021)
