Carmen Victoria St. George

The opportunity to work tirelessly on behalf of people unwittingly exposed to asbestos and then help them secure favorable verdicts or settlements is my passion and mission as a trial lawyer with Weitz & Luxenberg. It gives me great satisfaction when our clients are compensated for the wrongs forced upon them by the suppliers, distributors and manufacturers of harmful asbestos-containing products. I leave no stone unturned in an effort to obtain the best possible financial compensation for people suffering with lung cancer or mesothelioma because it is my desire that my clients obtain financial security for their loved ones.

Only gifted and exceptionally skilled attorneys work at Weitz & Luxenberg. A perfect example is Carmen St. George, who possesses a remarkable talent for making the seemingly rock-solid case theories and themes that defendants promulgate at trial appear patently implausible to juries. 

Ms. St. George’s face may already be familiar to you if you watch CNN’s "Headline News with Nancy Grace." She is often invited onto that program to discuss high-profile court cases. Ms. St. George also appears from time to time on Fox News Network to offer legal analysis of major issues dominating the news.

Over the years, Ms. St. George has won millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements for mesothelioma victims exposed to asbestos while engaged in home renovations, new residential or commercial construction, automotive repairs, industrial infrastructure products manufacture and installation, shipbuilding, and U.S. Navy service.  Her single largest individual jury award was $2.25 million for a Brooklyn Navy Yard electrician exposed to asbestos by handling packing material.

Ms. St. George joined Weitz & Luxenberg in 2014 after a decade with the New York law firm Levy Phillips & Konigsberg where she served as trial associate in both mass-tort and class-action litigations. Among her achievements: a New Jersey court victory that, for the first time at the national level, linked industrial talc to mesothelioma. In addition to asbestos-exposure cases, Ms. St. George also handled employment discrimination, complex medical-malpractice, and product- and drug-liability litigations. During that time, Ms. St. George also served as a commissioner on the Nassau County (NY) Human Rights Commission.

Prior to Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, Ms. St. George was a senior felony prosecutor in the Queens County District Attorney’s Office (Kew Gardens, NY). There, she filed indictments, presented cases to grand juries, conducted thousands of hearings, and, ultimately, pursued more than 50 felony and misdemeanor criminal cases to verdict.  Ms. St. George’s passion then, as now, centered around use of all her skills and abilities — in and out of the courtroom — on behalf of victims.

Ms. St. George demonstrated enormous potential for future success throughout her time at Fordham University School of Law, as evidenced by her selection to the Dean’s List and award of a Fordham Fellowship (she was similarly on the Dean’s List as a criminal-justice major at St. John’s University and was an inductee to the National Criminal Justice Honor Society).

During law school, Ms. St. George completed internships in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office (Brooklyn), Nassau County District Attorney’s Office (Mineola, NY), and the Wall Street law firm of Jackson, Brown, Powell & St. George. She also was a student law clerk in the chambers of the late U.S. District Court Judge John E. Sprizzo (Southern District of New York).

Once a member of Fordham’s Latin American Law Students Association, Ms. St. George participates even to this day in the mentoring of Latino students interested in learning about the legal field.

Ms. St. George was born in New York but spent almost the entirety of her childhood in Athens, Greece (she speaks Greek fluently, as well as Spanish). Ms. St. George is married to a New York state-court judge, and is the mother of two wonderful children. In her spare time, Ms. St. George enjoys scuba diving, skiing, boating and race-car driving; she is a member of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors, United States Power Squadrons, and Porsche Club of America.