Lisa Shub joined the firm's San Antonio location in 1993. She practices in the litigation section with an emphasis on mass tort, toxic tort, pharmaceutical/medical device and fiduciary duty matters. She also has significant experience handling insurance defense, insurance bad faith, products liability, and contractual disputes.

Lisa has extensive experience in the identification, coordination, development and presentation of expert witnesses in national litigation. She also has first chair trial and arbitration experience.

Lisa has had significant involvement in the following types of cases:

Toxic Exposure

• Participation in defense of multiple pesticide manufacturers in mass tort case involving allegations that pesticide contamination caused personal injuries and property damage, including
  • Primary contact with defense expert witnesses on issues of pesticide fate and transport, exposure calculations, toxicology and epidemiology
  • Obtaining early summary judgment and claims resolution of defendant on no evidence grounds
• Defending employers against claims that workplace exposures caused employee offspring to have birth defects, including identification, presentation and cross examination of medical and epidemiology experts
• Defending chemical distributors against claims brought by over 400 former employees of an o-ring manufacturing facility alleging exposure to "toxic soup"
• Defending product manufacturers against claims brought by over 2,000 construction workers and 8,000 family members alleging toxic exposure during construction of the South Texas Nuclear Power Plant and Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant resulting in defense summary judgments against all plaintiffs
• Defending premises owners/operators/employers against claims of chemical exposure on work sites

Fiduciary Duty

• Defending banking institutions against allegations of mismanagement of investment accounts
• Defending against allegations of breach of fiduciary duty in management of Trust assets

Pharmaceutical

• Participation in the identification, retention and presentation of expert witnesses in cases brought by thousands of plaintiffs against a pharmaceutical manufacturer of over-the-counter medicines
• Participation in the case development of the first case to go to trial nationally involving pharmaceutical product

Contract Disputes

• Defending premises owners/operators against claims of negligence over theft of resident belongings, resulting in defense verdict at trial
• Defending against commercial claims between parties to art auction resulting in favorable outcome for client
• Representing companies in claims brought by competing business owners against allegations of tortious interference with a contract
• Representing home realty company in litigation brought by subsequent home purchasers

 Insurance

• Defending a major surplus lines insurance carrier against allegations of bad faith insurance practices, resulting is a successful arbitration award
• Defending an insurance carrier against allegations of coverage in a directors and officers' liability policy
• Defending against coverage claims in "claims made" and "occurrence" insurance policies

• American Bar Association
• Defense Research Institute
• Supreme Court Historical Society
• San Antonio Bar Association
• San Antonio Bar Foundation

• "Texas Top Rated Lawyer," LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell (2013)
• "Who's Who in Energy," San Antonio Business Journal (2012)
• "Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars," Thomson Reuters (2005)

• "Preparing Your Witness in the Electronice Age," American Bar Association Tort Source, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Vol. 11, No. 2, Winter 2009
• "Inspiring Us to Pay It Forward," American Bar Association The Brief, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Vol. 37, No. 4, Summer 2008
• "The Learned Intermediary and Sophisticated User Defenses in Chemical Exposure Cases," Product Liability Law & Strategy, Volume XIX, Number 12, June 2001
• "Toxic Tort Cases and the Learned Intermediary Defense," Texas Lawyer, November 13, 2000

• "Taking Control: How to Avoid Discovery Hijacking," Panel Speaker, CLE Presentation, May 17, 2012
• "Privilege as it Applies to In-House Council – Do Your Communications Constitute Legal Advice?" Panel Speaker, San Antonio-Austin Chapter of The Texas General Counsel Forum Quarterly Meeting, Plaza Club, San Antonio, Texas, April 13, 2007
• "Fiduciary Liability – What are the Rules and What Can Be Recovered?" CLE Presentation, 2002
• "Environmental Hazards in Healthcare Facilities," CLE Presentation, December 19, 2001
• "Reliability of Scientific Evidence," Mealey's Mold Litigation Conference, Four Season's Hotel, Houston, October 2, 2001
• "Legal Lines: Mold Litigation," KTSA 2-Hour Radio Broadcast, August 25, 2001

1993 - J.D., magna cum laude, St. Mary's University
1987 - B.S., cum laude, Special Education, The University of Texas

While in law school, Lisa was an articles editor of the St. Mary's Law Journal. She was admitted to practice law in Texas in 1993. She is also licensed to practice in the United States Federal District Court for the Western and Southern Districts.

Prior to attending law school, Lisa was a special education teacher for high school age students with learning disabilities and emotional disturbances.

• Texas

• City Year San Antonio, Board of Directors (2008 - 2010)
• United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County, Issues Council – Strengthening Families