Robert W. Steinmetz

Rob Steinmetz is a founding partner of McConnell Van Pelt, LLC. He has over fifteen years of civil trial and appellate experience defending claims against professionals and organizations.Mr. Steinmetz’s practice focuses primarily on the defense of professional negligence claims and related complex litigation, including legal, medical and accounting malpractice, professional licensing matters and physician peer review issues.Mr. Steinmetz has litigated claims against lawyers practicing in a wide variety of specialties, including patent law, contracts, commercial litigation, products liability, real estate, oil and gas, family law, probate, wrongful death, personal injury and administrative law. His diverse foundational knowledge base provides him with the unique ability to distill critical facts and law from an underlying matter in order to creatively and efficiently analyze, value and resolve claims.Mr. Steinmetz received his Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, graduating cum laude. While at UW Law, he worked with the Wisconsin Innocence Project, where he presented a novel argument for the application of the new evidence standard to improvements in DNA testing that led to the exoneration of a Wisconsin state prisoner after 18 years of wrongful incarceration. He also spent a semester of study at the University of the Witwatersrand School of Law in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Steinmetz is admitted to practice in Colorado, Wisconsin and before the Second and Tenth Circuits. He is an active member of the Colorado Bar Association Ethics Committee, where he recently authored a Formal Opinion (adopted, pending publication) regarding Colorado lawyers’ ethical duties arising from the breach of a lawyer’s data systems.