About James V. Weixel
James V. Weixel Jr. is a attorney based in San Francisco, California, specializing in consumer law and appellate practice. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1993 and holds an active license. He also maintains membership in the Ohio Bar, where he was admitted in 1990, though his status there is inactive. His practice areas encompass civil appeals, federal appeals, class actions, and lemon law cases. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals.
The U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California, as well as the Northern District of Ohio. He has represented clients ranging from individuals and families to large multinational corporations in various legal matters, including asbestos litigation, workers' compensation, commercial litigation, personal injury cases, securities litigation and arbitration, and contractual disputes. He has also been heavily involved in appellate practice throughout his career, participating in appeals and writ proceedings in the state and federal courts in California and Ohio. He has been heavily active in professional and community organizations. He served on the board of directors of the Bar Association of San Francisco from 2006 through 2008. He has also served on the board of directors of the Conference of California Bar Associations (CCBA), a statewide assembly of attorneys dedicated to improving the law and the judicial system, in which he authored several resolutions that were enacted into California law. He is the vice president of the Irish American Bar Association of Northern California.
He is also the treasurer of the United Irish Societies of San Francisco, the sponsor of the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade and other Irish cultural events in San Francisco. The treasurer of the Irish Cultural Centre of California. He earned his Juris Doctor from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University in 1990, where he was an officer in the school’s Moot Court program. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Miami University in 1986. He has been practicing law for over 25 years, focusing on toxic tort defense and other areas of casualty defense litigation. He has been an associate, partner, and of counsel at large and small firms and in solo practice. He has also practiced pro hac vice before dozens of state and federal courts in other jurisdictions.
He is currently associated with Demler, Armstrong & Rowland, LLP, in Sacramento, California, and also operates the Weixel Law Office in San Francisco. He has been involved in various legal proceedings, including the case Moore v. Gonzalez et al, where he represented the plaintiff in a civil rights action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. He is fluent in English and conversational Spanish. He is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco, the State Bar of California, the Ohio Bar, and the Irish American Bar Association of Northern California. He has been recognized for his contributions to the legal community and his active involvement in professional and community organizations.
