Don Springmeyer
Partner | Las Vegas
Don Springmeyer is the litigation partner in charge of construction defect, real estate, class action and complex damage litigation, and natural resource / environmental litigation for the Las Vegas and Reno offices of Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman and Rabkin, LLP. He is a fourth generation Nevadan with 29 years of experience in high stakes litigation including class actions, mass torts, construction defects, water / environmental, and insurance bad faith.
Mr. Springmeyer has been AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated through Martindale-Hubble for more than 15 years. An AV Preeminent rating is a significant accomplishment - a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence and ethical integrity. He was honored as the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Nevada Trial Lawyers Association in 1997, in recognition of his work on an infant formula price-fixing class action and his pro bono work on health insurance coverage cases for breast cancer victims. He has also been awarded a National Community Service Award for his pro bono work.
Areas of Practice
Environmental/Natural Resource Law and Litigation
Construction Defect
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Education
- Juris Doctor (1979), University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, Madison, Wisconsin, cum laude
- Abraham Sigman Award for Excellence in Oral Advocacy
- Member Regional Champion Team, ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (1976), Yale, New Haven, Connecticut, cum laude with Special Honors in Political Science. Senior Thesis - "Innovation in National Party Politics"
Memberships
- Member State Bar of Nevada
- Member Clark County Bar Association
- Member Washoe County Bar Association
- Member Nevada Justice Association, and Board of Governors
- Member American Bar Association
- Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- Admitted to the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
- Admitted to the United States District Court of the Northern District of California
- Admitted to the United States District Court of the Eastern District of California
Honors & Outside Activities
- AV Preeminent Peer Review rated
- Trial Lawyer of the Year, Nevada Trial Lawyers Association, 1997
- National Community Service Award, Primerus Law Firms for pro bono insurance litigation for breast cancer victims