Jamie Schumacher is an Associate in the Litigation Department at MacDonald Illig where she concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial litigation, employment litigation, and insurance defense.
She is also a member of the firm’s Commercial/General Litigation Practice Group, Labor & Employment Practice Group, Marketing Committee, and Emerging Technologies/Copyright & Trademark Practice Team.
Ms. Schumacher is licensed to practice in all Pennsylvania state courts, the United States District Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Schumacher is the former chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the Erie County Bar Association. She is also a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates.
Ms. Schumacher received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. During law school she was a Legal Writing Teaching and Research Assistant. She was also a Fellow of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project and taught courses in constitutional law and juvenile justice to local high school students.
Ms. Schumacher also spent her time as a Pitt Law Ambassador – a liaison between the law school and future interested and admitted students. Before joining MacDonald Illig, she was an intern at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Allegheny County District Attorney’s Office Domestic Violence Division.
Ms. Schumacher is both a student and an instructor at Long’s School of Dance here in Erie, where she teaches classes in ballet, tap, jazz, Irish and aerial arts. Ms. Schumacher is also a member of Long’s Performing Arts Team and Captain of Long’s Aerial Arts Team.
Bar Admissions:
- Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Education:
- J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2014
- B.A., Political Science, Legal Studies Certificate, Gannon University, May 2011
Memberships & Associations:
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Erie County Bar Association
- Former Chair, Young Lawyers Division, Erie County Bar Association
- House of Delegates, Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Board Member, Early Connections
- Admissions Committee and Hazard Society, The Erie Club
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