Snyder Miller & Orton LLP was formed in January 2004 by three veteran trial lawyers with diverse litigation experience: Steve Snyder, Jim Miller and Luther Orton. Our practice focus is in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, but we have represented clients headquartered throughout the United States and have tried cases in state and federal courts across the country.

We have been litigating complex, high-stakes civil lawsuits for a wide range of corporate and individual clients – manufacturing and distribution companies, banks and real estate developers, medical device, pharmaceutical, software, and other technology companies, venture capital and securities firms – for thirty years.

We are experienced negotiators, as well as skilled trial lawyers. We have settled thousands of disputes and lawsuits of all types and have negotiated some of the largest and most complicated settlements of mass tort insurance coverage claims in U.S. history.

Our combined experience covers a wide spectrum of civil litigation, including cases involving mass tort products liability and related insurance coverage, patent infringement and trade secret misappropriation, bank and real estate fraud, violations of state and federal securities and antitrust laws, breaches of technology licenses and other agreements, and unfair competition and other business torts.