Tyler Schneider

Managing Partner & Attorney at TorHoerman Law
Chicago, IL

About Tyler Schneider

Tyler Schneider is the Managing Partner and a trial attorney at TorHoerman Law, joining the firm in 2013 and becoming Managing Partner in 2023. He represents clients in catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, toxic torts, maritime law, products liability, pharmaceutical and medical devices, and other mass tort matters. He served as lead counsel in a $495 million NEC verdict against Abbott Laboratories. Tyler also serves as acting president of the TorHoerman Law Employee Foundation, the firm's charitable non-profit arm.

Proven verdicts and settlements at TorHoerman Law

These results are credited to TorHoerman Law. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Boehringer Ingelheim agreed to pay $650 million in May 2014 to resolve approximately 4,000 federal lawsuits claiming the blood thinner Pradaxa caused life-threatening bleeding injuries without adequate warnings, in an MDL presided over by Judge David Herndon in the Southern District of Illinois where the court appointed TorHoerman Law's Tor Hoerman as one of five plaintiffs' co-lead counsel.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois (MDL No. 2385) · 2014Product LiabilityRead the full story →

A St. Louis jury awarded $495 million against Abbott Laboratories after finding the company failed to warn that its Similac cow's milk formula could cause necrotizing enterocolitis in premature infants.

22nd Judicial Circuit, St. Louis, Missouri (Case No. 2322-CC01251) · 2024Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$25 millionVerdict

A federal jury in St. Louis awarded $25 million to the parents of a two-year-old girl who drowned after climbing into a Bestway above-ground pool using an exterior nylon strap the manufacturer had built into the design.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri (Case No. 4:22-cv-00050) · 2025Wrongful DeathRead the full story →
$25 millionVerdict

A Los Angeles jury unanimously held Conagra Brands fully liable and awarded $25 million to Roland Esparza, who developed severe bronchiolitis obliterans after years of daily exposure to butter-flavored PAM cooking spray fumes.

Los Angeles County Superior Court · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
~$2 millionVerdict

A St. Louis jury found diacetyl distributor Elan Chemical Company liable for the debilitating lung disease suffered by two food-flavoring plant workers, returning a $1 million verdict for each man in March 2023.

St. Louis City Circuit Court (Case No. 1722-CC01186) · 2023Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Saint Louis University School of Law
Juris Doctor; BS Human & Organizational Development
Vanderbilt University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois
State Bar of Missouri
State Bar of California (Los Angeles County)
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
State Bar of U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
State Bar of U.S. District Court, District of Vermont
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
American Association for Justice
American Bar Association
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
Illinois State Bar Association
Madison County Bar Association
The Injury Board
Saint Louis University School of Law Young Alumni Society
Tri-City Bar Association
Public Justice

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2020-2026)
National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in Illinois

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.