Susan M. Schwartzkopf heads up the firm’s federal motion practice. In this role, Susan is the firm’s specialist for removal to federal court, federal transfer and class actions. Susan also serves on the firm's legal malpractice defense and insurance coverage and extra-contractual liability teams. She has considerable experience defending attorneys in cases alleging violation of the FDCPA. Susan also handles complex insurance coverage questions.
During her third year of law school, Susan clerked for the Honorable Jeffrey S. White, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. In the summer of 2003, she was an Environmental Fellow at the Resources Law Group in Sacramento, California. Susan's previous law experience also includes internships at the Illinois Attorney General's Office and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. She currently volunteers as a Moot Court judge at Saint Louis University School of Law.
Susan graduated from the Vermont Law School where she was a member and Production Coordinator of the Vermont Law Review. Susan was also a member of the Vermont Legal Research Group and the Environmental Law Clinic and a Student Editor/Writer for the American Trial Lawyers Association's Daubert Litigation Group Newsletter. During this experience, she analyzed federal and state treatment of the admissibility of expert and scientific testimony under Frye and Daubert. Susan earned a B.A. in Political Science, with a Minor in Women's Studies, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1998.
Susan is a member of the Missouri and Illinois Bar.