Areas of Practice
- Appellate Litigation
- Business & Commercial Litigation
- Environmental & Toxic Torts
- Products Liability
Education
- Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, J.D., 1983; Order of the Coif
- Louisiana State University, B.S.
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 1983
Court Admissions
- 5th Cir., 1984
- 9th Cir., 2003
- D. Idaho, 2003
- E.D. La., 1983
- M.D. La., 1983
- W.D. La., 1983
professionalsBio
William Schuette is a partner in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Since 1983, he has practiced in the areas of commercial, toxic tort, product liability, and professional liability litigation. He has served as lead counsel and co-counsel in numerous trials in Louisiana state and federal courts. He has been a seminar speaker on evidentiary issues, architects' and engineers' liability, insurers' extra-contractual liability, and complex litigation.
Mr. Schuette served as National Coordinating Counsel for Asbestos Litigation for a Fortune 500 building materials and paper manufacturer/retailer. In this position, his responsibilities included:
- Supervision and support of local counsel handling thousands of asbestos lawsuits
- Development of national defense strategies, themes and positions
- Supervision of the development and implementation of litigation support databases and document imaging protocol
- Identification, evaluation, and preparation of expert and corporate witnesses
- Identification and retrieval of relevant historical documents and supervision of their review
- Coordination of formal and informal discovery responses and document productions
He is a longtime resident of Baton Rouge.
Noteworthy
- AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.
News
- Jones Walker Litigation Team Plays Key Role in Defeating Mass Asbestos Litigation Class Certification
- Jones Walker Litigators Defeat Class Certification in Mass Asbestos Suit
Presentations
- "Powerful Evidence in Louisiana Civil Litigation", February 6, 2003
Memberships
- American Bar Association (Member, Sections on Tort Trial And Insurance Practice Section, Litigation, Products Liability, Environmental and Toxic Tort, and Commercial)
- Defense Research Institute (Litigation; Industry-wide Litigation; Technology; Environmental and Toxic Tort)
- Idaho State Bar
- Louisiana State Bar Association
