Practice areas: Appellate, Class Action & Mass Torts, Personal Injury
Licensed in Texas since: 2012
Education: Baylor University School of Law
Selected to Rising Stars: 2022 - 2025 The Lanier Law Firm
10940 W. Sam Houston Pkwy NSuite 100
Houston, TX 77064 Phone: 713-659-5200 Email: Kyle D. Schnitzer Visit website
Kyle D. Schnitzer is an attorney providing legal services covering Appellate, Class Action / Mass Torts: Plaintiff and Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff.
Kyle Schnitzer, who practices law in Houston, Texas, was selected to Rising Stars for 2022 - 2025. This peer designation is awarded only to a select number of accomplished attorneys in each state. The Rising Stars selection process takes into account peer recognition, professional achievement in legal practice, and other cogent factors.
Prior to becoming an attorney, he studied at Baylor University School of Law. He graduated in 2012. After passing the bar exam, he was admitted to legal practice in 2012.
First Admitted: 2012, Texas
Bar / Professional Activity
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) - Member, 2024
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) - Member, 2023
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) - Member, 2022
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) - Member, 2021
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (TTLA) - Member, 2020
Educational Background
- Rice University (BA), 2009
Other Outstanding Achievements
- Successfully briefed and obtained an appellate reversal of a summary judgment in Cause No. 01-20-00251-CV in the First Court of Appeals (Lowe v. Watson). The trial court had granted a summary judgment for the defense on the grounds that our client had released his personal injury claims, but the appellate court agreed that ambiguities in the record suggested our client had only released his consortium claims arising out of his wife's injury in the same car wreck. , 2020
- Successfully briefed the response to a mandamus petition concerning the trial court's striking of a Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 18.001 counter-affidavit. The only prior appellate opinion on the subject had concluded that defendants have no adequate remedy on appeal when a counter-affidavit is struck and that mandamus is warranted to correct such an order. My response resulted in an opinion - In re Flores, 597 S.W.3d 533 (Tex. App.--Houston [1st Dist.] 2020, orig. proceeding) - that expressly distinguished the prior appellate opinion on the subject and has itself been followed by multiple other appellate courts, thus becoming the majority view in Texas. , 2020
- Successfully briefed and argued the appeal in Frederking v. Cincinnati Ins. Co., 929 F.3d 195 (5th Cir. 2019), reversing a summary judgment in favor of an insurance company that had argued a car wreck caused by a drunk driver was not an "accident" because it was the foreseeable result of an intentional decision. The Fifth Circuit's opinion emphatically rejected that argument, beginning: "Only an insurance company could come up with the policy interpretation advanced here.", 2019
Office location for Kyle D. Schnitzer
10940 W. Sam Houston Pkwy N
Suite 100
Houston, TX 77064
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2022 - 2025