Schwab, Van A.

Attorney Melissa Schopfer joined the Simmons Firm in 2005, after earning her Juris Doctorate from St. Louis University School of Law. As an asbestos and mesothelioma attorney, she has worked on dozens of cases in the past six years and helped recover over $100 million in settlements and verdicts on behalf of individuals and families impacted by mesothelioma and other asbestos-related diseases. She has represented clients in nearly every state.

Melissa regularly travels to visit her clients. Though her main office is at the firm’s headquarters in Alton, Illinois, she’s just as likely to work from a client’s dining room table, a hotel room, airport waiting areas, or somewhere even more unusual. One of her more unusual visits found her meeting with a client in a Nevada rock quarry