Stephen Schultz is a proud St. Louis native. He attended Christian Brothers (CBC) High School and Missouri State University. Shortly after college, Stephen was severely injured in a car accident. He went on to attend top-ranked Washington University School of Law, knowing that upon graduation he would dedicate his career to the representation of injury victims and their families.
Honors and Awards
Stephen was recognized early for his legal ability and dedication to personal injury and wrongful death victims. Just a few years into his career, he was honored as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer by the National Trial Lawyers Association. On a national level, Stephen was inducted into the Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. This organization is limited to the top 1% of trial lawyers in the country.
Martindale-Hubbell awarded Stephen Schultz with an AV-Preeminent Rating: an honor awarded to less than 10% of practicing lawyers in the country. This ranking system is based on peer reviews of practicing lawyers and how others perceive your skill as a trial lawyer. Simply put, the only way to achieve this honor is to be considered one of the best personal injury attorneys in the community. Personal injury lawyers throughout the country specifically seek out Stephen Schultz to assist as co-counsel in a complex commercial vehicle accident, dram shop, and wrongful death litigation.
Stephen has been featured in the Best Lawyers in St. Louis edition of St. Louis Magazine for the past eight years. His legal accomplishments have been published in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis Countian, and several national legal periodicals. Stephen has been interviewed on television and has provided expert legal commentary on various radio talk shows.
Catastrophic and fatal tractor-trailer accident cases are what Stephen focuses the majority of his time on. He has extensive knowledge of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations and state laws that govern commercial trucking companies and their drivers. Stephen has handled injury and death cases against trucking companies in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, Texas, and Indiana. He is a member of several tractor-trailer litigation advocacy groups and mentor to lawyers seeking to participate in this complex area of injury law.
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