Peter H. Schmidt, II

Practice Areas: Litigation; General Liability; Coverage and Bad Faith/Extra Contractual; Construction Defects; Real Estate; Professional (E&O) Liability; Legal Malpractice; Medical Malpractice; Debtor and Creditor; First and Third Party Insurance; Insurance Coverage.

Admitted: 1990, Georgia; U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern, Districts of Georgia; U.S. Court of Appeals - Eighth, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits; Georgia Court of Appeals; Georgia Supreme Court.

Education: Emory University (B.A., with honors, 1986); Georgia State University (J.D., 1990).

Bar Association Memberships: State Bar of Georgia; Glynn County Bar Association; Atlanta Bar Association; American Bar Associations (Sections of Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Automobile Law,  Products General Liability and Consumer Law, Property Insurance Law, Torts and Insurance Practice Section).

Other Memberships: Defense Research Institute; Georgia Defense Lawyers Association; Liability and Property Insurance Liability Bureau (LIRB - PLRB); Lawyers Club of Atlanta; American Society for Healthcare Risk Management; Atlanta Claims Association; Southern Loss Association.

Biography:  Drew Eckl & Farnham, LLP - Partner (1991 - 2006), Management Committee (2003 – 2006).

Speaker, PLRB/LIRB - National and Regional Claims Conferences.

General Editor, Annotations to the Homeowners Policy, American Bar Association, 1997-2004.

Editor, Georgia Legal Compendium, A.M. Best, 2003-2005.

Chicago Title Insurance Company Scholar; Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award; Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy T. Beasley, Georgia Court of Appeals.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon; Georgia Epsilon; Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society; Pi Sigma Alpha, National Honor Society.

Pro-Bono Information: Board Member, The Marty Lyons Foundation (Georgia Chapter); Board Member, St. Marks Towers, Inc. - Brunswick, Georgia.