Todd Schneider founded Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP in 1993. He has an extensive background in complex litigation in the areas of employment, consumer rights, financial service, ERISA and antitrust. He has numerous court victories in both jury and bench trials alike. He has argued cases in courts at every level from trial courts to the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Schneider is a published author and he lectures widely. He is a past president of The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and has served as vice president for Consumer Attorneys of California.
Mr. Schneider was named Trial Lawyer of the Year by the San Francisco Trial Lawyers’ Association and he has been honored as a Super Lawyer in the area of class actions and mass torts by San Francisco Super Lawyers Magazine for each year that the list has been published. He has twice been a finalist for the Consumer Attorneys of California’s prestigious Consumer Attorney of the Year award. He is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and received a rating of “superb” by AVVO.
Mr. Schneider was appointed by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court to serve on California’s Advisory Committee on Civil Jury Instructions, the body that writes the Judicial Council of California Civil Jury Instructions. He has served on that committee for over a decade along side of a select group of the state’s elite trial lawyers, judges, and appellate justices.