Lawyers / Professionals

 
Gilbert E. Schill Jr.       
Partner
One James Center
901 East Cary Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219-4030
T: 804.775.4345
F: 804.698.2166
gschill@mcguirewoods.com
 

Mr. Schill headed the firm's Litigation Department from 1992 to 1999. He now heads the firm's higher education practice team and is a member of its nonprofit organizations and healthcare litigation teams. He practices primarily in the areas of higher education, complex commercial litigation and healthcare litigation. He has appeared in the courts of more than a dozen states, and has tried numerous cases in the areas of securities and corporate issues, antitrust, contract issues, commercial torts, fiduciary duty, tenure, academic freedom, student conduct, trademarks and trade dress, trade secrets, defamation, fraud, athletics, campus police issues, public finance, tax, health insurance coverage, Medicaid, university accreditation, art and museum law, construction, employment and other types of disputes. He has handled appeals, arbitrations and mediations. He is an outside professor in the higher education practicum at Washington & Lee University School of Law.


Practices & Industries
Honors
  • Named One of the "Best Lawyers in America," Woodward/White, Inc., 2009-2012
  • Named a Virginia "Super Lawyer," 2007-2011

Professional Affiliations
  • Virginia State Bar
  • Virginia Bar Association
  • National Association of College and University Attorneys
  • American Health Lawyers Association
  • United States Law Firm Group, Litigation Section
 

EDUCATION

University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia, J.D., 1971

  • Law Review: Board of Editors, Virginia Law Review, 1969-1971

Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, B.A., Cum Laude, 1968

 
 

ADMITTED

Virginia 1971

U.S. Supreme Court 1982

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit 1977

Supreme Court of Virginia 1971

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia 1971

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia 1971

 

PLACE OF BIRTH

Orange, New Jersey