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Steven B. Hantler Biography
Steven B. Hantler is
Chairman of the Foundation for Fair Civil Justice.
Until his recent retirement
from Chrysler LLC, he served as the Company's Assistant General Counsel for Government
and Regulation. He directed Chrysler's Class Action Group, Consumer
Litigation Group, litigation communications function, and legal reform
activities.
Since joining Chrysler in
1981, he brought leadership and innovation to a succession of
management roles resulting in reduced costs and better legal outcomes
for the Company. He served as Assistant General
Counsel of Litigation Strategy and Communications, Assistant General
Counsel of General and Consumer Litigation, Chrysler’s Manufacturing
Group Counsel, and Associate General Counsel of Gulfstream Aerospace
Corporation. Mr. Hantler also served as Senior Trial Attorney for
several years. Prior to joining Chrysler, he was engaged in the private
practice of law.
Mr. Hantler is one of the nation’s leading experts on legal reform and
has contributed to legal reform initiatives in many states and at the
federal level. He serves on the boards of directors of the Michigan and
Florida Chambers of Commerce, the New York University Law School Center
for Labor and Employment, the American Tort Reform Association and is
legal reform advisor to the Council of State Chambers. He also chairs
the board of directors of the State Government Leadership Foundation,
which is dedicated to educating state leaders on timely public policy
issues. He is a Senior Fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.
He
previously served as Chairman of the Steering Committee of the U.S. Chamber Legal
Reform Institute and as the Chair of the Advisory Board of the National
Judicial College.
Mr. Hantler is also a leader
in civic and professional affairs. He previously served on the Judicial
Review Committee for Governor John Engler of Michigan; on the Judicial Review
Committee for U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham; on the Environment, Safety,
and Health Advisory Committee to the President of the University of
California; as Chief of Staff to the Law and Public Safety Departments
of the Transition Committee for Mayor Dennis Archer; and, as Co-Chair of
the City of Detroit Law Department Restructuring Team.
He is frequently invited to
speak at national meetings on civil justice reform, employment law,
process re-engineering, and occupational safety and health issues. His
keynote speech at the Republican Attorneys General Association Summer
2003 meeting, “The Seven Myths of Highly Effective Plaintiffs
Lawyers,” has been published by Vital Speeches of the Day. His
monograph of the same title has been published by The Manhattan
Institute. Another of his speeches, “The Three Catastrophes of
Asbestos Litigation," has also been published by Vital Speeches of
the Day, The Federalist Society, The Manhattan Institute, and the
Washington Legal Foundation.
His
articles have been published by The Wall Street Journal,
Litigation Management Magazine, Chief Executive Magazine, Inside
Litigation, Investor's Business Daily, The Oklahoman, Chief Legal Executive Magazine, San Francisco Examiner
and many other publications. His “Primer on
Civil Justice Reform at the Federal Level,” was published in 1999 by the
U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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