Lawyers
Douglas G. Schneebeck - Shareholder
I practice in the following areas:
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Evaluation, Antitrust, Class Action and Mass Torts, Commercial Litigation, Insurance, Litigation, Products Liability, Torts/Personal Injury
Practice
Commercial and products liability litigation, antitrust, securities and consumer class action litigation. Doug is Chairman of Modrall Sperling's Class Action and Mass Torts Practice Group Class Actions.
Representative Cases
Class Actions
- Life Insurance Premiums (three purported nationwide class actions including Smoot v. Physicians Life Ins. Co., 2004-NMCA-027, 135 N.M. 265, 87 P.3d 545.)
- Securities (five purported derivative claims including Lawrence Lane v. Westland Development Co., Inc. relating to proposed $254,000,000 corporate merger)
- Auto Insurance Installment Fees (purported 13-state class action dismissed on summary judgment) Sanchez v. Progressive
- Fair Debt Collection Practice Act (FDCPA) (national coordinating counsel for Utah law firm in purported single-state class actions for Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Texas and Washington); and Shorty v. Capital One, 90 F. Supp. 1330
- Antitrust
- Pain medication
- Brand name prescription drug pricing
- Polyester fiber pricing
- Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
- Antidepressant medication
- Anti-inflammatory medication
- Breast implants
- Diet drugs
- Other consumer class actions
- Brake-shift interlock
- MP3 players
- Automobile pricing
Individual claims
- Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplement and Medical Devices Product Liability Litigation
- Breast implants
- Latex gloves
- Diet drugs
- Cholesterol medication
- Surgical Devices
- Reflux medication (Clark v. Johnson & Johnson; 2004-NMCA-119, ___ N.M. ___, 99 P.3d 232 (N.M. App. 2004)
- Ephedra
- Antipsychotic medication
- Anti-inflammatory medication
- Pacemakers
- Insulin pumps
- Asbestos: over 70 cases defended for mask manufacturers, asbestos containing products manufacturer and premises owner
Representative Clients
- DaimlerChrysler
- Ethicon Endo-Surgery
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Johnson & Johnson
- Medtronic
- Merck
- Physicians Life Insurance Co.
- Progressive Insurance
- Sears, Roebuck & Company
- Walgreen's
- Westland Development Co., Inc.
- 3M Company
Professional Activities
International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), Defense Research Institute (DRI).
Civic Activities
Volunteer Assistant Track Coach, University of New Mexico (hurdles) (2000-present); Past President of The Adaptive Ski Program for People with Disabilities
Honors
Rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell; listed among the Leading Individual Lawyers in general commercial litigation for New Mexico by Chambers USA; selected as a Southwest Super Lawyer®, 2007-2008 (derived from a lawyer survey) in the areas of Class Action/Mass Torts, Business Litigation, Personal Injury Defense: Products; listed in The Best Lawyers in America (commercial and mass torts litigation); one of two New Mexico lawyers listed in The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers (2007); listed among Law Dragon's Rising Stars (derived from lawyer surveys).
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, 1985; James Madison University, 1982, summa cum laude
