Attorney
Germantown, Tennessee, 38138
Bio Kevin Snider is the founding attorney of Snider & Horner, PLLC and a licensed attorney in the State of Tennessee, a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Rule 31 Listed Mediator of Civil and Family Law, and Board Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist and Civil Pretrial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He concentrates on consumer law and consumer protection matters but he is also active in many other areas of both civil and criminal litigation. Mr. Snider has completed over 1900 trials and hearings in local, state, and federal courts as well as at administrative hearings which included the precedent setting case of Beverly Miller, et. al. v. United Automax (2005) in which the Tennessee Supreme Court adopted Mr. Snider’s argument on remedies available in consumer fraud cases.
In addition, he has served as a legal consultant and television commentator for WREG News Channel 3 as well as WMC News Channel 5; he conducts legal seminars and lectures for the Memphis and Shelby County Bar Association, National Business Institute, Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, West Tennessee Legal Services, Memphis Area Legal Services, SCORE, and other local entities; he has testified before the Tennessee House Standing Committee of Consumer and Employee Affairs in regard to new consumer rights legislation; he is the author of Selected Statutes of Tennessee Consumer Law (2003) and A Practical Guide to Identity Theft (2003); he was instrumental in the drafting and subsequent passage of the 2003 amendments to the Tennessee Lemon Law; he has worked as a part-time public defender for the City of Germantown; he serves as a Special Judge for the Shelby County General Sessions Civil Court and previously for the Germantown Municipal Court; and he was the featured columnist for the Shelby Sun Times “Ask a Lawyer” newspaper column from 2000-2002, is the featured columnist for “A Question of Law” newspaper column in the Fayette Falcon (2018 – current), and was the host of “Legal Ease” a local legal television show from 2000-2008.
Mr. Snider received his B.S. degree in Business Administration from Southern College in Collegedale, Tennessee where he served as an Auxiliary Probation Officer for the Hamilton County Juvenile Court.
He then completed the Graduate Summer Scholar Program at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Later, he received his law degree from the University of Memphis School of Law in Memphis, Tennessee where he was a member of the Moot Court Board and listed in Who's Who Among American Law Students and subsequently received accreditation as a Certified Fraud Examiner from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and Board Certification as a Civil Trial Specialist as well as Board Certification as a Civil Pretrial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Mr. Snider has been recognized as an “Advocate” by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s National College of Advocacy after completing extensive civil trial seminars and courses conducted at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, Georgia and at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Federal Claims, U.S.
Tax Court, all of the courts in the State of Tennessee, the U.S. District Court and U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. From 2013 through 2017 (five years in a row), Mr. Snider was recognized as one of the top trial attorneys in the United States by being selected for membership into The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers. In 2016 and 2017, Mr. Snider was selected for inclusion in the American Society of Legal Advocates as one of the Top 100 Litigation Attorneys in Tennessee.
In 2017, Mr. Snider was selected for Fellowship into the Litigation Counsel of America society whose membership is limited to less than one-half of one percent of North American lawyers. Also, in 2017, Mr. Snider achieved Lead Counsel Verification in Consumer Protection.
