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William P. Schuman is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in its Chicago office. As a member of the Firm's Trial Department, he concentrates his practice in securities and complex commercial litigation and internal investigations. Bill has substantial experience in class actions and SEC defense litigation. He has been named a Super Lawyer by Law & Politics in Securities Litigation.
Bill also has extensive experience in the field of legal ethics, professional responsibility and defense of professionals. He has chaired the Firm's Professional Responsibility Committee since 1994 and is Co-Chair of the Firm's Professional Responsibility Practice Group. He is a Practicing Law Institute Faculty Member and a member of the American Bar Association's Center for Professional Responsibility, and has frequently lectured on the subject. In addition, Bill has extensive experience in director and officer liability and dealer/distribution litigation.
Bill has significant experience in admiralty litigation. He was one of the lead counsel representing the ship owner in Grubart v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, where admiralty jurisdiction was upheld in the United States Supreme Court in 1995.
He also has significant experience in constitutional law. In 1985, he won an Illinois Supreme Court decision in Sanelli v. Glenview State Bank, regarded as seminal in the area of separation of powers doctrine. In 1993, he won an important decision in the Illinois Appellate Court, on due process grounds, in ChemRex Inc. v. Illinois Pollution Control Board.
Bill has handled litigation in the federal and state courts in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern District of Illinois (trial bar) and the Central District of Illinois, and the Supreme Court of Illinois. He is a member of the American, Illinois and Chicago bar associations.
Bill received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1975, graduating first in his class in business administration. He received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1979.
Education
Harvard Law School, J.D., 1979
University of Michigan, B.B.A., 1975 | 