The Law Office of Alan H. Schoem LLC

Practice Areas

Product Safety; Regulatory Compliance; Product Recalls

Admitted

1973, District of Columbia, Maryland

Law School

The American University Washington College of Law, J.D.

Member

The District of Columbia Bar;  Maryland Bar

Awards

ABA's Mary C. Lawton Outstanding Government Service Award 

Biography Publications

Marsh Insights:  “Canada Consumer Product Safety Act.  The New Canada Consumer Product Safety Act—Are You Prepared?” 2011

Marsh White Paper: “New Consumer Product Complaint Database Could Pose Challenges For Consumer Product Stakeholders.” 2011

“The CPSA’s Information Disclosure Rules-Myths v. Reality” [Schoem and Gidding], 39 PSLR 145, (Feb. 27, 2011)

“Beware of New Increased Civil Penalties for Consumer Product Violations – Are You Vulnerable?”  Product Safety Letter, July 19, 2009

“When is a CPSC Civil Penalty Settlement Not a Settlement?” Product Safety Letter, June 19, 2009

“The Line on Lead Testing, How much testing is too much?”  DeRagon and Schoem, Playthings, 4/1/2009

Marsh White Paper: “New U.S.Consumer Product Safety Legislation Focuses on Lead and Children’s Products; Increases Civil Penalties 12-fold for Statutory and Regulatory Violations.” 2008

“New European Union Product Recall Rules and Regulations Follow U.S. Model; Safety of European Consumers at the Core,” 33 PSLR 211, Feb, 21, 2005

Marsh White Paper: “Managing Product Recall and Defect Reporting with the CPSC.” 2005

“Preparing for and Conducting a Product Recall,” 33 PSLR 211 (Feb. 21, 2005)

BNA’s Product Safety & Liability Reporter Vol. 33, No. 4 (January 24, 2005) and Vol. 33, No. 8 (Feb. 21, 2005).
  
Harvard Business Review Case Study - When No News is Good News, 79 HBR No. 4 at 39 (April 2001).

Select Presentations

DRI’s Strictly Retail Seminar, Chicago, IL May 12, 2011

International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization ICPHSO), February 23, 2011, “Product Recalls:  Are They Necessary?”  Orlando, FL

The Compliance and Practical Solutions for Industry Approach to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (The CPSIA to the CPSIA), DRI Las Vegas, NV April 2010

Association of Corporate Counsel, The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, October 19, 2009 Boston, MA

Product Safety: Understanding the 'Made in China' Brand, The Asia Society, April 28, 2008

DRI Children’s Products SLG, Update on Increasing Civil and Criminal Penalties For Failure to Report Product Hazards: A View From Both Sides, April 16, 2005, Los Angeles, CA