Zander Weiss is an Associate in the New York office of Ellis George LLP. His practice focuses on a wide range of complex disputes, including securities fraud, corporate governance, government investigations, and intellectual property matters. Zander has experience working in a variety of industry sectors, including financial services, real estate, cryptocurrency, animal pharmaceuticals, and entertainment.
Zander also maintains an active pro bono practice. He deposed a Rikers Island prison warden and helped secure a $1.5 million judgment in an Eighth Amendment case against the New York City Department of Corrections. He also worked with the ACLU to bring a successful class action lawsuit under the ADA challenging the treatment of deaf and hard of hearing individuals incarcerated by the Georgia Department of Corrections. Zander has also worked with the Innocence Project.
Before joining Ellis George, Zander was an associate at a globally recognized law firm and interned in the New York State Department of Financial Services Financial Frauds and Consumer Protection Division.
Zander earned his J.D. from Columbia Law School where he was Submissions Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts. As a research assistant for Professor Jane Ginsburg and the late Professor Robert Ferguson, he helped publish two books: Burrow-Giles v. Sarony (US 1884): Copyright Protection for Photographs, and Concepts of Authorship in an Age of Machines, and Metamorphosis: How to Transform Punishment in America.
Education
- Columbia Law School, J.D., 2018 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
- Boston College, B.A., 2015 (Cum Laude)
Bar Admissions
- New York
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
