Beth has over 30 years of experience advising businesses on the risks associated with the products they manufacture and distribute throughout the world. Using each individual clientโs business goals as the guide, Beth is strategic, proactive, and innovative in her approach to addressing mitigation of risk, brand integrity, litigation avoidance, and compliance issues. She provides national litigation management, representation before regulatory bodies, crisis management response, risk assessment/management, and preventive product safety counseling to U.S. and foreign manufacturers and distributors in diverse industry sectors, from consumer products and industrial equipment to medical devices, drugs, food products, and cosmetics. She has worked with U.S., Canadian and European health and safety officials to develop, defend, and harmonize worldwide safety standards, and collaborates with a network of foreign regulatory counsel as needed. Beth lectures on product safety, regulatory, and liability issues globally.
Beth is consistently named one of The Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ and received the prestigious Global Client Choiceยฎ award for adding value to clientsโ businesses. She has been AVยฎ Rated by Martindale-Hubbellยฎ for over 25 years. Beth has also been recognized for outstanding leadership in advancing and mentoring women as an Athena Award Finalist, Law360 Female Powerbroker and recipient of the Ohio Glass Ceiling Award from the National Diversity Council and Council on Women.
Bethโs practice includes the following:
Standards Development and Harmonization
Medical Devices & Drugs
Hand & Power Tools
ย Consumer Products
Cosmetics
Juvenile Products
Food Industry
Industrial Equipment
Fire & Explosion
Chemical Exposure
University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 1986,ย cum laude
Student Bar Association President
Student Speaker at graduation
Miami University, B.A., 1982,ย magna cum laude
Supreme Court of Ohio, 1989
Supreme Court of Wisconsin, 1986
United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 1990
United States District Courts, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin, 1986
United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1992
Beth has represented manufacturers in products liability matters in over 35 states
โExpert Spotlight: Beth Schneider Naylor,โ Stericycle Solutions (2020)
University of Cincinnati, Lindner College of Business, Adjunct Professor, Legal Environment of Business, 2016-2018
Lexologyโsย Client Choice Award 2015, Litigation Category, Ohio
The Best Lawyers in Americaยฎ, Product Liability Litigation – Defendants, 2015-2024
Cincyย Leading Lawyer,ย Cincy Magazine,ย 2015-2021
The Nihon Keizai Shinbunย (The Nikkei), Honored Presenter on โUnderstanding Product Liability in the United States,โ Tokyo Japan, 2015
Female Powerbroker byย Law360,ย 2014
2013 Athena Finalist,ย Cincy Magazine
Ohio Glass Ceiling Award,ย National Diversity Council and Council on Women, 2013
Bar Register of Pre-eminent Women Lawyers, 2011
Mentor of the Year, Frost Brown Todd, 2011
Product Liability Advisory Counsel (PLAC), Sustaining Member, 2009
Litigation Counsel of America, 2009
Womenโs Business Cincinnati โTop 10 Tri-State Bosses,โ March 2006
Outstanding Lawyers of America, 2003
International Whoโs Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyersย nominee, 2003
AVยฎ Rated,ย Martindale-Hubbellยฎ, 1998 โ present
Ohio Womenโs Bar Association Board of Trustee Member
Product Liability Advisory Council, Sustaining Member
Defense Research Institute
American Bar Association
Industry Advisory Board, Stericycle Expert Solutions
Ohio State Bar Association
Cincinnati Bar Association
University of Notre Dame Law Association, Board of Directors, 2007-present
Executive Advisory Committee, 2013 โ present
President, 2012-2013
President-Elect, 2011-2012
Admissions Committee Chair, 2010-2012
Diversity & Inclusion Committee Chair, 2017 โ present
Half the Sky Movement (2012 โ present)
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Community Ambassador
ND Lawyers Committee of Greater Cincinnati (2013ย โ present)
Organizing Committee
All Saints Catholic Parish Boosters, 1993-2011
Education Commission
Special Projects
Track and Softball Coach
Cincinnati Junior Rowing Club, 2009-2011
Membership Chair
Ursuline Academy of Cincinnati, 1996-2009
Second Century Campaign National Committee
Ultimate Auction Sponsor
Archbishop Moeller High School, 2004-2008
Academic Advisory Council
Alcohol and Drug Policy Task Force
Sycamore SAY and Select Soccer, 1995-2006
Coach and Sponsor
FBT Womenโs Initiative, Founder and former Chair
Firm Governance Committee, former Member
Products Liability Practice Group, former Co-chair
“States of Disrepair – Recent Developments in the โRight to Repairโ Movement,” Manufacturing.Net (August 2023).
โSix ways to reduce products liability claims in the time of COVID,โ Westlaw (October 2020). Downloadย pdf.
โCounterfeiting: Taking Down Fakes and Fraudsters,โ Wisconsin Lawyer (July 2020)
โNew product checklist for small businesses,โ Insureon Blog (July 2016)
โFemale Powerbrokers Q&A: Frost Brown Toddโs Beth Naylor,โ Law360 (May 2014)
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