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Linda Schuett

 
Partner - Linowes & Blocher LLP
 
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Company Name : Linowes & Blocher LLP
 
Company Website : www.linowes-law.com
 
Company Address : 7200 Wisconsin Ave.
Ste. 800, Bethesda, MD,
United States,
 
Linda Schuett Profile :
Partner - Linowes & Blocher LLP
 
Linda Schuett Biography :

Ms. Schuett’s primary area of practice is land use. Ms. Schuett served as the County Attorney for Anne Arundel County from June 6, 1999 to December 4, 2006. In that capacity, she represented the County Executive, the County Council, and all branches of County government. She was the author of a comprehensive revision of the County's laws relating to zoning, subdivision, and development. She authored or supervised comprehensive revisions of the code provisions relating to the Chesapeake Bay critical area; floodplain, grading, and storm water management; impact fees; permits for the use of County-owned rights-of-way; and solid waste facilities. She also authored a comprehensive revision of the Anne Arundel County Code as a whole. Ms. Schuett's secondary area of practice is business litigation, including complex commercial, property, land use, and banking issues. She has litigated a wide range of cases, including cases relating to check kiting; construction disputes; contract disputes; fraud claims; product failures; professional malpractice; covenants, time shares, and other property issues; and receiverships. She also handles arbitration matters and state and federal appeals. She represented the State of Maryland Deposit Insurance Fund Corporation in its capacity as Receiver for various savings and loan associations for more than 14 years. Ms. Schuett is the co-author of Maryland Rules Commentary, Paul V. Niemeyer and Linda M. Schuett, The Michie Company, 1984; Second Edition, 1992; Third Edition, 2003, a widely recognized treatise on the rules of civil procedure and trial practice. She is also the author of Advance Court Rules Service for Maryland and West Virginia. Ms. Schuett is a member and the Vice-Chair of the Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Court of Appeals. She drafted the rules governing discovery, trials, and judgments in the comprehensive revision of the Maryland Rules that occurred in 1984. She has participated in all rule changes since that time, including rule changes governing civil proceedings in the circuit courts and the District Court and rule changes relating to evidence, appeals, property actions, receivers and assignees, foreclosure sales, judicial sales, tax sales, arbitration, contempt, injunctions, mandamus, attorney discipline, and alternative dispute resolution. She has chaired or been a member of the following subcommittees: Discovery, Receivers and Assignees, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Rules, Visual and Electronic Evidence, Trial Rules, Management of Litigation, General Provisions, Specific Remedies, Probate and Fiduciaries, Professionalism, Form Interrogatories, and Style. Ms. Schuett's third area of practice is as a lobbyist. While County Attorney, Ms. Schuett assisted in the drafting of State legislation and testified before the General Assembly on proposed State legislation. She has extensive contacts at the State and local level. Finally, Ms. Schuett serves as an expert witness on issues relating to trial practice, civil procedure, and ethics. Specifically, she has served as an expert witness on the standard of care with respect to foreclosure and collection of judgment issues, civil procedure issues, receivership issues, and withdrawing from representation of a client. She has testified on the reasonableness of attorneys' fees in a bankruptcy proceeding, on the provisions of Rule 2-652 (enforcement of attorney's liens), and on the circumstances under which the statute of limitations is tolled in Maryland after a case has been dismissed in another state. Educational Background Juris Doctor, University of Maryland Law School, 1980 cum laude Master of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1974 Bachelor of Arts, Pennsylvania State University, 1972 cum laude Bar Memberships District of Columbia Maryland Court Admissions Court of Appeals of Maryland District of Columbia Court of Appeals U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland Professional Background County Attorney for Anne Arundel County. June 6, 1999 - December 4, 2006 Law Office of Linda M. Schuett. November, 1995 - June 5, 1999 Member, Blum, Yumkas, Mailman, Gutman & Denick, P.A. October, 1991 through October 1995 Partner, Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman. 1987 through October, 1991. Associate: April, 1982 -1987 Assistant Reporter, Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure of the Court of Appeals, 1980-1982 Significant Projects Ms. Schuett has practiced in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. Significant reported appellate opinions that she handled or supervised include Comptroller of the Treasury v. Crown Central Petroleum Corp., 52 Md. App. 581 (1982); Friendship Heights Associates v. Koubek, A.I.A., 785 F.2d 1154 (1986); Shofer v. The Stuart Hack Co., 324 Md. 92 (1991); Albert W. Sisk & Son, Inc. v. Friendship Packers, Inc., 326 Md. 152 (1992); Provident Bank v. DeChiaro Ltd. Partnership, 98 Md. App. 596 (1993), cert. denied, 334 Md. 210 (1994); Caldwell & Santmyer, Inc. v. Secretary of Agriculture, 55 F.3d 1578 (1995); Anne Arundel County v. Tierney, 132 Md. App. 149 (2000); National Waste Managers v. Anne Arundel County, 135 Md. App. 585 (2000), cert. denied, 363 Md. 659 (2001); Roeser v. Anne Arundel County, 368 Md. 294 (2002); Coleman v. Anne Arundel County Police Dept., 369 Md. 108 (2002); Halle Dev. Inc. v. Anne Arundel County, 371 Md. 312 (2002); Young v. Anne Arundel County, 146 Md. App. 526 (2002); Wolfe v. Anne Arundel County, 374 Md. 20 (2003); Nes v. Anne Arundel County, 376 Md. 69 (2003). Business and Professional Affiliations Maryland State Bar Association Elected in 1999 to the State Bar Association's Section Council on State and Local Government Law Women's Bar Association Bar Association of Anne Arundel County District of Columbia Bar Association Officer and Director, Providence Center(developmentally disabled adults), 1996-2000 Reporter, Governor’s Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy, 1996-1998 Participated in the formation of and training for a Teen Court program in Anne Arundel County, 1997-1998 Leadership Anne Arundel, Class of 1995-1996 Chair, Anne Arundel County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council, 1999-2000 Wrangler's Law Club, 1989 - present Barrister's Law Club, 1987 - present Awards and Distinctions J.D. cum laude, with highest law school class grades in Trial Practice and General Practice Clinic. Selected as a member of the Moot Court Board Appointed in 1982 by the Court of Appeals to its Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure Appointed in 1996 by the Court of Appeals as the Vice-Chair of its Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, thereby becoming the first non-judge to hold a leadership position on the Rules Committee Selected in 1996 and 2001 by the Appellate Judicial Nominating Committee as a candidate for an appellate judgeship Selected by LEXIS Law Publishing to be the author of Advance Court Rules Service for Maryland and West Virginia Appointed in 1999 by the County Executive to be the County Attorney for Anne Arundel County Selected as one of Maryland's Top 100 Women for 2001 Elected in 2000 as President, Attorneys' Affiliate Organization, Maryland Association of Counties Professional Lectures and Publications Co-author, Maryland Rules Commentary, Paul V. Niemeyer and Linda M. Schuett, The Michie Company, 1984, Second Edition, 1992, Third Edition, 2003. Author, Advance Court Rules Service, Maryland and West Virginia, 1998 to present time. Adjunct Professor of Legal Research and Writing, University of Maryland School of Law 1986. Former instructor of Civil Procedure for SMH Bar Review. Faculty member in Administrative law for the Maryland Judicial Institute, April 2005. Instructor at various seminars through MICPEL and the Maryland State Bar Association, including seminars on rules changes, civil procedure, recent opinions of the appellate courts, discovery, and construction law. Associate Professor of Spanish, Pennsylvania State University, College Park, Pennsylvania, 1972-73; Spanish Professor, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1974-77; Professor of English as a Second Language at Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland, 1977; Spanish teacher, Yeshiva High School, Silver Spring, Maryland 1977-78.

 
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