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Practice Areas: Civil Litigation, Insurance Law

Additional Information: Linda Schmidt is a member of the firm's Litigation Practice Groups in the Madison office. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Linda practiced as a member of the Government Affairs team at Swidler Berlin LLP (n/k/a Bingham McCutchen LLP) in Washington, DC.

Linda specializes in commercial litigation, with an emphasis in insurance and reinsurance, antitrust, products liability and tort, and appellate litigation. In her practice, Linda has represented clients in a variety of state and federal venues, including the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Wisconsin Court of Appeals and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Seventh and Tenth Circuits. Most recently, Linda successfully defended a major Wisconsin-based insurer in an ERISA class action that ultimately made its way to the Seventh Circuit.

Linda is a member of the Wisconsin; New York; Washington, DC; and Seventh Circuit Bar Associations, and is admitted to practice before the United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts.

Linda graduated from Columbia University School of Law, where she was a Stone scholar, member of the Parker School Journal of East European Law, Lowenstein Public Interest Fellow, and summer associate with the Public Interest Law Initiative in Baku, Azerbaijan. Linda previously earned her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, magna cum laude, in 1993, and an M.A. from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1998. She is fluent in German.

Linda helped initiate the firm's pro bono policy and now serves on the firm's pro bono committee.

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Firm Members: James Friedman Josh Johanningmeier Kendall Harrison Patricia Wheeler