Background
Schnake, Richard Lane was born on August 3, 1957 in Carthage, Missouri, United States. Son of Ivan Eugene and Phyllis Lea (Stewart) Schnake.
Schnake, Richard Lane was born on August 3, 1957 in Carthage, Missouri, United States. Son of Ivan Eugene and Phyllis Lea (Stewart) Schnake.
Southwest Missouri State University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1979). Washington University (Juris Doctor, 1982). Spoken languages: German.
Worked at Neale, Newman, Bradshaw & Freeman (Springfield, Missouri) specializing in General Civil, Trial, Appellate, and Administrative Practice. Corporation, Commercial, Banking, Products Liability, Personal Injury, Workers' Compensation, Insurance, Real Property, Probate, Trusts, Estate Planning, Family, Creditor, Bankruptcy, Financial Reorganization, and Insolvency Law. Admitted to the bar, 1982, Missouri and United States.
District Court, Western District of Missouri. 1984, United States. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit. 1986, United States. Supreme Court.
1989, United States. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit. Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Member, 1980-1981, and Executive Editor, 1981-1982, Washington University Law Quarterly.
Author: Note, "Blood Test Evidence in Disputed Paternity Cases: Unjustified Adherence to the Exclusionary Rule," 59 Wash. U.L.Q. 977 (1981). Law Clerk to Honorable Warren D. Welliver, Missouri Supreme Court, 1982-1983. Member, Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules Committee, 1994.
Missouri Supreme Court Civil Rules Study Committee, 1989-1992. Special Assistant Attorney General, 1990-1993. Recipient, David J. Dixon Appellate Advocacy Award, Missouri Bar Foundation, 1990.
Member: Springfield Metropolitan (Secretary, 1993. Director, 1994) and American (Member: Torts and Insurance Practice Section. Appellate Advocacy Committee) Bar Associations.
The Missouri Bar; American Judicature Society. Established in 1903, Neale, Newman, Bradshaw & Freeman is one of Springfield's longest established firms.
Board member, president, secretary Ozark Counseling Center, Springfield, Missouri, 1987-1988, 89-91, 92-94, 95-. Member American Bar Association, Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association (seminar lecturer), Missouri Bar Association (seminar lecturer), American Judicature Society, Order of Coif, Phi Kappa Phi.