Leonard Schroeter, Of Counsel, has a national reputation in the courtroom as a life-long crusader for his clients and an advocate for constitutional rights. For more than four decades, he has fought to protect individual rights of people at all levels of society, including injured persons and those accused of crimes.
Leonard's extraordinary legal experience began after graduating from Harvard Law School. He prepared the school segregation cases for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Education Fund, then headed by the late Justice Thurgood Marshall.
After relocating to Washington state in 1953, Leonard was deputy King County prosecutor. He then started a trial practice, which became Schroeter Goldmark & Bender, the Seattle firm that still bears his name. In 1997, Schroeter joined Stritmatter Kessler to continue his commitment to constitutional and public interest law.
Leonard has also been active in international law or legal affairs, serving as Principal Legal Assistant to the Attorney General of Israel and for more than a decade representing "samizdat" (underground) writers and human rights advocates in the former Soviet Union.
Education
- Harvard University, LL.B., J.D., 1951
- Indiana University; University of Chicago, M.A., International Relations, 1948