Virginia Iglesia Weber

Virginia Iglesia Weber is an Associate in the New York office of McKool Smith.  Prior to joining the firm she was an Associate with Greenberg Traurig in Miami, Florida.  After law school she served as a Law Clerk for the Honorable Alan S. Gold, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida.  During law school, Ms. Weber was a Law Clerk for the Honorable Frank M. Hull, U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  She also interned for Judge Gold, she interned with the Miami Public Defender’s Office, and she interned for the Georgia Lawyers for the Arts in Atlanta, Georgia.    

Her practice commonly involves representing clients in complex commercial litigation and class actions, employment matters, internal investigations, and government and Grand Jury investigations.  While at Greenberg Traurig, she represented a large Florida engineering firm in conjunction with a multi-agency investigation into allegations of illegal reimbursement of political contributions. She also represented a leading insurance company in a class action brought by over 90,000 physicians alleging a scheme to defraud doctors in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).  

Since joining McKool Smith, her practice has focused on civil and complex civil and criminal litigation.  She has represented, among others, an executive of Fairfield Greenwich Group in civil litigation and criminal, regulatory investigations relating to the Madoff scandal, foreign institutions in civil litigation relation to the Madoff scandal, a major U.S. airline in a lawsuit against its head of sales for the New York region who suddenly resigned to join the airline’s competitor in the identical position, and an executive of Columbia University in an internal investigation over allegations of whistleblower retaliation.  

Ms. Weber is fluent in Spanish.

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