Katie Weitzman Joins the Firm’s Growing Dietary Supplement Practice Group

Collins, McDonald & Gann, P.C., has announced that Katie Weitzman, Esq. of Brooklyn, NY, has joined the firm as an associate attorney. Weitzman joins the firm’s growing bi-coastal dietary supplement practice group, which has offices in Mineola, New York and Los Angeles, California, and serves the needs of clients in the health, fitness and dietary supplement communities.

Weitzman will be working with Alan Feldstein, Of Counsel to the firm, who spearheads the firm’s dietary supplement practice from Los Angeles, and with Rick Collins, who co-founded the firm’s dietary supplement division with Feldstein more than a decade ago.  She will be focusing her efforts on the firm’s sports nutrition and dietary supplement clients, where she will be providing counsel on a wide variety of legal issues. In addition, she will play an instrumental role in helping to continue to build the practice group as the firm further expands into legal counsel for the functional food and beverage industry.

“Katie brings a unique combination of skills and experience to this position that will be of tremendous value both to our current clients as well as to other companies in the dietary supplement and functional food industries that can benefit from her insight into product marketing and claims substantiation,” says Feldstein, whose expertise in advertising and marketing law is widely recognized. Collins agrees, “Her expertise in this complex area of the law, combined with her strong background in journalism and marketing, will enable her to provide our clients with exactly the type of legal counsel that is needed during these challenging times in the industry.”

A cum laude graduate of the Hofstra University, Maurice A. Deane School of Law (which she attended on an honors scholarship), Weitzman also holds a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and has been published in a number of diverse magazines. She has previously interned at the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus in Manhattan and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, as well as served as a judicial intern for the Honorable A. Kathleen Tomlinson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Weitzman is a member of the Consumer Affairs Committee at the New York City Bar Association and the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Law Section at the New York State Bar Association, as well as a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, where she serves on both the Young Lawyers Committee and the Women in the Law Committee.  She is also a member of the Nassau County Women’s Bar Association.  In addition, during law school, she served as a member of the Hofstra Intellectual Property Law Association, the Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP), the Hofstra Law Professionalism and Career Development Advisory Council and the Hofstra Law Student Ambassador Program.

For more information about the dietary supplement practice group at Collins, McDonald & Gann, visit www.supplementcounsel.com, or call 516-294-0300.