From 1971 through 1978, Mr. Schreiber was a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York where he conducted more than 1,500 criminal and 3,500 civil pretrial hearings and settled approximately 1,000 civil cases. In addition to trying numerous civil and criminal cases, Mr. Schreiber supervised pretrial practice in derivative, class and complex actions in the admiralty, antitrust, aviation, securities, directors' and officers' and product liability fields, including Berkey v. Kodak, Litton v. ATT, the Penn Central Commercial Paper litigation, the New York Times and Readers' Digest gender discrimination, the Argo Merchant-Nantucket stranding, and the Tenerife 747 collision cases.
From November 1978 to January 1982, when he joined Milberg, Mr. Schreiber served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of a unit of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York which provided centralized legal, risk management and insurance services for the Federation's hospitals; homes for the aged; and health, education and community service agencies. He was Trial Counsel from 1955 through 1971 and Resident Counsel from 1966 through 1971 of the Brooklyn office of Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
Mr. Schreiber has been a participant in numerous special project committees for the American Bar Association and the Second Circuit. From 1960 to present, Mr. Schreiber has been the Planning and Program Chairman of more than 125 national programs, including the ALI-ABA and PLI’s Continuing Professional Education national courses of study on evidence, civil practice and employment discrimination litigation in federal and state courts. Mr. Schreiber developed and chaired the ALI-ABA and Jiao Tong Law School’s three-day course of study on “Current Civil Litigation in the U.S.” in Shanghai, China, June 3-5, 2005. In June 2006, he developed and chaired a three-day course of study on American law in Beijing and Shanghai, China; and in May 2007, coordinated a three-day program in New Delhi, India. He has been a frequent lecturer at professional programs and workshops on federal and state court civil procedure, federal and state court trial evidence and federal criminal practice and procedure. Mr. Schreiber was Reporter, ABA Advocacy Task Force (1970-1971), which led to the formation of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. He also served as President of the Academy of Court Appointed Special Masters from 2007-2008, and he is presently a member of the Board of Editors of Moore’s Federal Practice, Third Edition. In August 2005, he was elected to the Board of Trustees of the Center for American & International Law, formerly the Southwestern Legal Foundation.
From 1972 to 1987, he served as an Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School, teaching courses in trial advocacy, product liability, mass torts and insurance disputes. He has been an editor for more than 40 CLE course handbooks and major publications on civil practice and litigation, including ALI-ABA's three-volume Civil Practice Guide, Litigation in Federal and State Courts (8th ed. 1998).
Mr. Schreiber served as a Court-Appointed Special Master in Marcos Human Rights Litigation, the Pan American Lockerbie cases, the Agent Orange Litigation (March 1982-January 1984), and a series of other complex federal civil cases.
Mr. Schreiber was Judicial Member, Anglo American Exchange on Civil Procedure (March 1974), and Hearing Officer, N.Y. State Master Energy Plan (fall 1979). He is the recipient of the Francis Rawle Award for outstanding achievements in post-admission legal education (ALI-ABA, July 1985) and the Presidential Award, Legal Aid Society (November 1984). Mr. Schreiber is also the Founder and Co-Chair of the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Inc.
Mr. Schreiber is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the American Law Institute. He is admitted to the bar of the State of New York, to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
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