Background
Schmitt, Joseph E. was born on November 8, 1936 in Erie, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Joseph E. Schmitt
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Pennsylvania State University (Bachelor of Arts, 1957). University of Pittsburgh (Bachelor of Laws, 1960).
Career
Worked at Stonecipher, Cunningham, Beard & Schmitt, Professional Corporation (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) specializing in General Civil Practice. Bankruptcy, Corporate, Reorganization, Creditors Rights, Commercial, Oil and Gas Law and Estate Planning and Administration. Admitted to the bar, 1961, Pennsylvania.
Assistant District Attorney, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1966-1967.
Member: Allegheny County Bar Association (Chairman, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, 1989). Commercial Law League of America.
(Board Certified, Business Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law League of America Academy of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Specialists). The firm began in 1908 as Stonecipher & Ralston.
In the early years the firm"s concentration was in commercial work.
Over the next decades, the emphasis shifted to bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, while the firm maintained its substantial commercial and corporate practice. In this present transitory legal environment, the firm has remained stable for 34 years with the same senior Beard and Schmitt Officers and the third generation Cunningham.
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Membership
Member: Allegheny County Bar Association (Chairman, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section, 1989). Commercial Law League of America. (Board Certified, Business Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law League of America Academy of Commercial and Bankruptcy Law Specialists).
