Thomas P. Schult Partner

Personal Profile

For the past 46 years, Tom Schult has tried commercial and product liability lawsuits in federal and state courts throughout the country. Tom represents manufacturers of a wide range of consumer and industrial products as their national or regional trial counsel. In addition to defending companies in litigation, Tom provides counseling regarding product safety issues and the development of on-product warnings and instructional brochures.

He now devotes significant attention to counseling clients and defending against putative class action claims involving allegedly inaccurate marketing of products. He has helped clients defeat certification of nationwide and state classes in those cases.

Tom also has significant trial experience in commercial cases. In 1997, he led a team of lawyers who successfully tried the first federal civil case arising from the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. And he successfully defended a lawsuit alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in the first ADA case tried in the federal court for the District of Kansas.

Tom has been selected as liaison counsel in MDL actions in the Western District of Missouri and the District of Kansas. In that role he took part in a three-week MDL bellwether trial in the District of Kansas.