Partner, Dinsmore & Shohl
About
Leland P. Schermer is a partner in the national law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl, in its Pittsburgh office. He is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan, College of Engineering, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where his classmates elected him the President of his class.
For 30 years, Schermer has been litigating all forms of intellectual property disputes, starting his career in New York City with the intellectual property law firm Kenyon & Kenyon. Thereafter, Schermer then helped start the intellectual property practice at the Chicago-based general practice law firm McDermott, Will & Emery. He returned home to Pittsburgh to start a family in 1989, at which time he started the intellectual property practice at Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, where he was a partner for 9 years.
From 1999 to 2007, Schermer was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh where he created and taught a course on intellectual property protection and litigation. In 2013, he was invited to give the annual Edgar M. Snyder Distinguished Scholar Lecture at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is proud that both of his sons also chose the University of Michigan; one is a current engineering student and one is a recent LS&A graduate.
