McNees Attorney appointed to Professional Ethics and Grievance Committee
December 19, 2017
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(Columbus, Oh. – December 19th, 2017) McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC attorney Karl H. Schneider was appointed to the Columbus Bar Association Professional Ethics and Grievance Committee, which is a certified grievance committee charged with investigating and empowered to prosecute disciplinary claims before the Supreme Court. The appointment began in August 2017 and runs until June 2021.
Karl began his trial practice in 1982 and devotes a considerable portion of his practice to the white collar criminal defense of businesses and individuals and to civil litigation arising in State and Federal courts. The white collar practice, consisting of criminal and parallel proceedings, require his appearance in Federal and State courts and before various regulatory agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ohio Department of Education, Ohio Division of Securities, Ohio Department of Insurance, Disciplinary Counsel, Ohio Elections Commission, Ohio Ethics Commission, Ohio Inspector General, FDIC, Federal Trade Commission and the IRS.
Karl’s practice involves investigations and prosecutions involving public corruption, bribery, money laundering, tax fraud, health care fraud, securities fraud, mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, Hobbs Act violations, mail fraud and wire fraud. He has represented top officials in bribery, public corruption investigations, and ensuing proceedings. He has tried many capital cases to verdict.
A significant portion of Karl’s civil litigation and regulatory practice centers on the defense of professional liability claims against various trades including, appraisers, real estate agents, insurance agents, mortgage brokers and auctioneers. He also litigates title insurance claims on behalf of title insurance underwriters. He has also litigated directors’ and officers’ liability claims and represented law enforcement officers in disciplinary and ethics’ inquiries.
Karl was appointed Receiver by the United States District Court in a case involving alleged defalcation by a title insurance agent. He has served as Receiver and as counsel to Receivers. He has also represented political parties, political action committees and candidates in matters before the Ohio Elections Commission. He was appointed as special hearing officer on two different occasions by the Ohio Secretary of State to preside over statewide ballot protest proceedings and has represented public officials and private entities in matters involving Ohio Ethics Commission. Karl has been appointed Special Prosecutor involving allegations of bribery and obstruction of justice of a lawyer; to defend the State in its conviction of a judge on appeal and represent a sitting judge in special writ proceedings before the Ohio Supreme Court.
Karl was appointed by the Ohio Supreme Court in July 1987 to serve as a Commissioner of the Ohio Court of Claims, Victims Reparations Section, and served in that capacity until December 31, 2004. He was admitted before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in 1990, the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio in 1983, the Northern District of Ohio in 1995 and the Eastern District of Michigan. He has been admitted pro hac vice in other state and district courts as the need arises.
Karl is a member of the American Bar Association and its White Collar Institute and Litigation sections, a member of the Ohio State and Columbus Bar Associations. He has also been established as a Life Member of the United States Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference, and was appointed by Governor Strickland to serve on the Sunset Review Commission and appointed by Governor Kasich to the Ohio Board of Building Appeals. He also serves on the Judicial Screening Committee of the Columbus Bar Association. He is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell and named as a top lawyer in The Verdict, a division of Business First of Columbus Magazine. He has also been named in the Cincinnati Magazine Super Lawyers from 2005-2017. From 2010-2017, he received further distinction by Super Lawyers as one of the top 50 practitioners in Columbus and from 2012-17 as one of the top 100 in Ohio. He is a member of the American Academy of Trial Attorneys with designation of Premier 100 Criminal Trial Lawyers.
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