Criminal Law

• Fraud
  Qui tam. The firm’s practice focuses on impact litigation with a goal of remedying systemic violations of the law in employment, civil rights, public accommodations, consumer fraud, antitrust, and ERISA cases.
• Theft
• Money Laundering
  As reported in Law360, U.S. District Judge Katherine Failla picked the Schneider Wallace team from two other sets of legal teams vying for lead plaintiff appointment in the putative class action accusing Tether, the issuer of a “stablecoin” cryptocurrency of the same name, and cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex of engaging in a “part-fraud, part-pump-and-dump, and part-money laundering” scheme that eventually cost cryptocurrency investors hundreds of billions of dollars.

Business and Corporate Law

• Antitrust
  Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky has been established in California with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1993. The firm represents both individuals and institutional clients such as health insurers and municipalities in complex civil litigation. In addition to the Los Angeles office, the firm maintains a nationwide practice with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Texas, North Carolina and Puerto Rico. Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky handles class actions in the areas of employment, disability access, civil rights, and consumer protection. It also litigates cases in the fields of antitrust law, ERISA, and

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
• Wrongful Termination
  Ori Edelstein has extensive employment law experience in cases involving wage and hour violations, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and retaliation. Mr. Edelstein has successfully represented as class counsel many classes of clients in state court, federal court, during mediation and during arbitration. Mr. Edelstein graduated from Georgetown University Law Center after earning his degree in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
• Employment Discrimination
  Partner Carolyn Cottrell, a member of the firm since 1995, will continue overseeing the firm’s employment practice now expanding into the Los Angeles office and will be a part-time resident of that office. Ms. Cottrell has spent her legal career advocating for the rights of workers who have been subjected to underpayment of wages, discrimination, harassment and retaliation. She has litigated hundreds of class actions and individual claims including wage and hour, employment discrimination and civil rights actions. Ms. Cottrell was honored as a “Top Woman Litigator” by the Daily Journal and she was nominated for “Woman Trial Lawyer of the Year” by the Consumer Attorneys of California. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association.
• Employment Litigation
  Employees have important rights. When these rights are violated, employees may have a valid claim for back pay, lost wages, penalties, and other damages. Because employers often exhibit a pattern of wrongful conduct, our attorneys often handle employment claims as class actions. We have substantial experience in litigating claims involving...

Property Law

• Construction Litigation
  Our firm is best known for its extensive work in class action and complex litigation. We have represented classes of plaintiffs in claims involving securities, antitrust violations, pharmaceuticals, disability access, employment discrimination, ERISA, employment benefits, wage and hour violations, elder abuse, and construction defects.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Amy Eskin, as the Director of the Mass Tort department, brings more than thirty years of trial experience in personal injury, products liability and complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases to the firm. Ms. Eskin was elected into the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been honored as a top attorney of Northern California by San Francisco Magazine, and received the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Civil Justice Award among other honors. Ryan Hicks, working in the Houston office, brings decades of experience in civil litigation and personal injury, including toxic torts, toxic exposure, and catastrophic injury. David Leimbach and Nathan Piller’s practices focus on complex litigation including consumer protection class action and employment class action.

Finance Law

• Tax Law