Suzanne Ilene Schiller

Suzanne Ilene (Shoshana) Schiller is a partner in the firm’s litigation group, negotiating agreements and handling a wide range of disputes with particular experience in CERCLA, cost recovery and contribution actions, as well as pipeline, storage tank, real estate development, and leasing matters. Because a client's business needs are best achieved through a position of strength, she brings a focused eye to each client she represents and an aggressive approach to each case she handles.  For thirty years, that formula has resulted in successful representations of Fortune 100 businesses, infrastructure companies, manufacturers, commercial real estate developers and municipalities. Shoshana, a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, tries jury and non-jury cases in federal and state courts and appears before administrative agencies, hearing boards and appellate courts throughout the country.  She is also a frequent speaker at legal and industry trade conferences and seminars, a regular author on environmental and real estate issues and currently the editor of MGKF’s Litigation Blog. Her academic writings have been cited in publications such as the Harvard Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and the Emory Law Journal, and by the United States Supreme Court in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 133 S. Ct. 1351, 1361, 185 L. Ed. 2d 392 (2013).

When not attending to her law practice, Shoshana can generally be found with her teenage daughter in one of two places: on the ski slopes or in another country. She is a member of the National Ski Patrol and an instructor of Outdoor Emergency Care, spending most weekends from December to March patrolling at Jack Frost Mountain in the Poconos.  As for travel, Shoshana has been to all seven continents and with over seventy countries explored, she’s always looking forward to the next adventure.  “My preference is for developing countries.  While I love going to museums and restaurants and shops, there’s nothing quite the same as stumbling upon something amazing – an outstanding Roman ruin or a crumbling Byzantine church – on the outskirts of a small town that no one has even heard of before.”