Jonathan Schneller brings a strategic eye to his clients’ most challenging matters, defending major companies in novel mass-tort cases and high-stakes litigation against government entities.  Jonathan is a leading expert in public-nuisance law and has extensive experience defending internet companies and manufacturers in lawsuits, class actions, and state Attorney General investigations alleging harms from their products and services. His briefing in high-profile matters has been described in the media as “forceful, cogent,” and “passionately written.”

In 2023 alone, Jonathan has played a lead role in the following matters:

• Coordinating legal strategy for a pharmaceutical company’s defense of governmental opioid lawsuits. Among other successes, Jonathan helped secure a landmark 2021 appellate reversal in the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejecting the novel public-nuisance theories driving the nationwide opioids litigation.
• Coordinating legal strategy for an auto manufacturer’s defense of tort lawsuits relating to a social media “challenge” involving the manufacturer’s vehicles.  
• Defending a social media company in wrongful death and personal injury lawsuits alleging that online content provoked a mass shooting.
• Securing dismissal for a social media company of a putative class action alleging that online “challenges” harmed school districts.
• Securing dismissal for a financial services company of a putative class action alleging that the use of a voice-matching security tool violated California privacy law.
• Representing a health insurer in an action against the US Department of Health and Human Services challenging a Medicare audit regulation.
• Defending a health insurer against a false-claims lawsuit by the US Department of Justice involving the interpretation of Medicare regulations.