Steven M. Schuetze
Associate
Steven M. Schuetze
Associate
Claremont, California
| phone | (909) 621-4935 (800) 458-3386 |
| fax | (909) 625-6915 |
| Mr. Schuetze | |
Steven Schuetze has worked at Shernoff Bidart Echeverria Bentley LLP since 2006, working on a variety of insurance bad faith and personal injury/wrongful death cases. Mr. Schuetze is the lead attorney in the Firm’s Law and Motion Department, working extensively with partners Mr. Bidart, Mr. Echeverria and Mr. Bentley.
Mr. Schuetze was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1989, and the State Bar of Washington in 1990. He has briefed and argued appeals before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals as well as the Second, Third, Fourth, and Sixth Appellate Districts of the California Court of Appeals. He has been a trial attorney on jury trials in Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, and Alameda Counties, and participated in numerous binding arbitrations. Mr. Schuetze was the plaintiff’s liability trial counsel in the medical malpractice case of Reichner v. Maywood in San Diego which returned a jury verdict of $2,953,000 (reduced to $2,266,000 by MICRA). This case received Verdict Search’s Verdict of the Week honors.
Mr. Schuetze began his career at an insurance defense firm, specializing in insurance subrogation matters. In 1999, he joined the law firm of Good, West & Schuetze, working with well-known aviation and consumer trial attorney Ned Good. At that firm, Mr. Schuetze handled catastrophic injury cases including quadriplegia, tetraplegia, paraplegia, brain damage, chronic pain syndrome, disc herniation, serious fractures, as well as a dozen wrongful death cases.
Mr. Schuetze attended Pepperdine University School of Law, graduating cum laude in the top 5% of his class in 1989. While at Pepperdine, Mr. Schuetze was a member of the Pepperdine Law Review and received American Jurisprudence Awards in Civil Pleading & Procedure and Conflicts of Laws. Mr. Schuetze obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, after graduating as the valedictorian from his high school.
Areas of Practice:
- Serious Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Liability
- Property and HMO Cases
Bar Admissions:
- California, 1989
- Washington, 1990
Education:
- Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California, 1989; J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence
Honors: Cum Laude
Honors: top 5%
Law Review: Member, Pepperdine Law Review
- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1986; B.A., Bachelor of Arts
Published Works:
- Appellate Briefs (Co-Author)
Representative Cases:
Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Lecturer, Paralegal Litigation Seminars
Honors and Awards:
- American Jurisprudence Awards - Civil Pleading & Procedure and Conflict of Laws
- Dean's Scholarship
Professional Associations and Memberships:
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
Past Employment Positions:
- Good, West & Schuetze, Partner
