Lawyers
Douglas G. Schneebeck - Shareholder
I practice in the following areas:
Alternative Dispute Resolution and Evaluation, Antitrust, Class Action and Mass Torts, Commercial Litigation, Healthcare, Insurance, Litigation, Products Liability, Torts/Personal Injury
Practice Description
Mr. Schneebeck defends businesses in medical device, pharmaceutical and other products litigation, along with class actions of a wide variety (insurance, products, antitrust, securities and consumer protection). Schneebeck has defended cases in state and federal courts in New Mexico, and in state or federal courts in eight other states. He has also represented clients before the New Mexico State Bar Disciplinary Board, the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy and the New Mexico Counseling and Therapy Practice Board. Mr. Schneebeck serves on Modrall Sperling's Executive Committee and chairs the Firm's Class Actions and Mass Torts Practice Group.
Representative Cases
Class Actions
- Securities (five purported derivative or appraisal claims including Lawrence Lane v. Westland Development Co., Inc. relating to proposed $254,000,000 corporate merger)
- 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)
- Auto Insurance Installment Fees (purported 13-state class action dismissed on summary judgment) Sanchez v. Progressive
- Auto Insurance Uninsured/Underinsured Limits (purported class action dismissed on summary judgment) Lucero 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
- Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
Individual or qui tam claims
- Pharmaceutical, Dietary Supplement and Medical Devices Product Liability Litigation
- Breast implants
- Latex gloves
- Diet drugs
- Cholesterol medication
- Surgical Devices
- Reflux medication
- Ephedra
- Antipsychotic medication
- Anti-inflammatory medication
- Pacemakers
- Insulin pumps
- Asbestos: over 70 cases defended for mask manufacturers, asbestos containing products manufacturer and premises owner
- Medicare Compliance Qui Tam Actions
Representative Clients
- Ethicon Endo-Surgery
- GlaxoSmithKline www.insidecounsel.com
- Johnson & Johnson
- Medtronic
- Merck
- 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 2009; selected as a Southwest Super Lawyer®, 2010 (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, mass torts, products liability and "Bet-the-Company" litigation), 2010; one of two New Mexico lawyers listed in The International Who's Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers; identified by Benchmark Litigation 2010 as one of 17 New Mexico "litigation stars"; listed among Law Dragon's Rising Stars (derived from lawyer surveys)
Education
University of Virginia School of Law
James Madison University, summa cum laude
