USD Alumnus Frederick Schenk ’78 (JD) Appointed to Executive Board for American Board of Trial Advocates

Frederick Schenk ’78 (JD) Appointed to Executive Board for American Board of Trial Advocates

Frederick Schenk ’78 (JD)

San Diego  (January 6, 2017) – University of San Diego (USD) School of Law alumnus Frederick Schenk, '78 (JD), was recently appointed to the executive board of the San Diego Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).

The executive board runs the local chapter of ABOTA, a prestigious national association comprised of the country's leading judges and trial lawyers.

Membership to ABOTA , which is committed to the preservation and promotion of the civil jury trial while promoting civility in the civil judicial process, is by invitation only.

“We are proud of our enduring affiliation with ABOTA and are especially honored our partner will lend his expertise to this important organization as it strives to elevate the standards of integrity, honor and civility in the legal profession," said CaseyGerry’s managing partner David S. Casey Jr. CaseyGerry has a longstanding tradition of ABOTA involvement, with five of its partners included in their membership.

An attorney with CaseyGerry since 1983, Schenk is past-president of the board of directors, 22nd District Agricultural Association (San Diego County Fair Board); past-president of the Civil Justice Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit organization dedicated to defending consumer access to justice; past president of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego and past-president of The Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center. In addition, he serves on the American Association for Justice’s (AAJ) board of governors and the Robert L. Habush Endowment board of directors. Schenk is also a member of USD School of Law Board of Visitors.

About the University of San Diego School of Law

The University of San Diego (USD) School of Law is recognized for the excellence of its faculty, depth of its curriculum, and strength of its clinical programs. Each year, USD educates approximately 800 Juris Doctor and graduate law students from throughout the United States and around the world. The law school is best known for its offerings in the areas of business and corporate law, constitutional law, intellectual property, international and comparative law, public interest and taxation.

USD School of Law is one of the 84 law schools elected to the Order of the Coif, a national honor society for law school graduates. The law school’s faculty is a strong group of outstanding scholars and teachers with national and international reputations and currently ranks 35th nationally and 6th on the West Coast among U.S. law faculties in scholarly impact and 24th nationally and 6th on the West Coast in all-time faculty downloads on the Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN). The school is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1954, the law school is part of the University of San Diego, a private, nonprofit, independent, Roman Catholic university chartered in 1949.

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