Margaret Erin Rodgers Schmidt

Associate

Margaret Erin Rodgers Schmidt is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Rodgers Schmidt represents organizations in civil and criminal government investigations and provides service to clients in a variety of civil litigation matters. She has represented pharmaceutical, insurance, and healthcare device companies in a broad range of litigation and alternative dispute resolution matters, including class action, qui tam, bankruptcy, and other business and corporate disputes.

Ms. Rodgers Schmidt earned her J.D., with honors, from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2005, where she participated in Georgetown's Federal Legislation Clinic, advising a health privacy advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. on issues related to the security of health information in the workplace. She also instructed law students at the Georgetown Writing Center and served as a staff editor for the The Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy. She earned her B.A., summa cum laude, with a concentration in history from Loyola College in Maryland in 1999, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Rodgers Schmidt was a researcher on art and cultural property issues for the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States and a contributor to the "Commission's Staff Report Plunder and Restitution: The U.S. and Holocaust Victims' Assets." Ms. Rodgers Schmidt also previously served as a program and policy associate for the Innovations in Civic Participation, a Washington D.C. think tank on global youth service and civic engagement.

Ms. Rodgers Schmidt is a child advocate, representing young clients in dependency proceedings before the Family Division of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and volunteers with the District Attorney's Office in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, to conduct preliminary criminal hearings on behalf of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Rodgers Schmidt is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.