Attorney Brian Weinstein is the founding partner of Weinstein Couture, Seattle, Washington. Brian started filing lawsuits for asbestos mesothelioma victims as soon as he became a lawyer in 1981. Over the last 30 years, Brian has achieved numerous significant asbestos verdicts, favorable appellate results and advantageous asbestos settlements nationwide on behalf of working men and women suffering from mesothelioma and other asbestos related diseases. His clients have worked at shipyards, power plants, refineries, paper mills and just about any type of industrial or commercial setting where one could be exposed to asbestos. Brian pioneered asbestos lawsuits for housewives suffering from mesothelioma who were exposed through their husbands work-clothes. Brian has successfully tried asbestosis, asbestos related lung cancer and mesothelioma lawsuits in federal courts in New York, Georgia, Texas, and New Mexico. He has won asbestos lawsuits in state courts in Washington, Illinois, Missouri, and Texas. Brian has long been recognized as one of the nation’s leading asbestos trial attorneys and a Super Lawyer by Washington Law and Politics.

“A lot of the lawyers I went to school with just wanted to work on Wall Street,” Brian recalls. “But I had no interest in joining the corporate world. In fact, just the opposite; I knew I wanted to use my law degree to hold corporations accountable when they negligently make dangerous products and take advantage of working men and women just trying to support their families. Trying lawsuits for people suffering from mesothelioma by asbestos exposure has allowed me to do that.”

After more than twenty years of successful law practice as a mesothelioma lawyer Seattle, in 2004 Brian ran for and won a seat in the Washington State Senate representing a the suburbs east of Seattle. While in the Washington State Senate, Brian continued to advocate for the benefit of working families, focusing on consumer rights issues. After only two years in the Senate, Brian was honored with the chairmanship of the Consumer Protection and Housing Committee. Brian was also the prime sponsor of the Insurance Fair Conduct Act which punished insurance companies that unreasonably deny coverage claims or benefits. He also worked to pass a new law imposing a fiduciary duty on mortgage brokers toward borrowers – quite timely in the recent sub-prime crisis. After one four-year term, Brian decided not to run for re-election and to return to his law practice, where he continues to tirelessly advocate for asbestos victims and others harmed by defective drugs and medical devices. He has a special interest in birth defect caused by anti depressants and migraine drugs taken by pregnant women.