Marta-Ann Schnabel |

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Marta-Ann Schnabel is a shareholder in the law firm of O'Bryon & Schnabel, PLC. In
over thirty five years as a litigator, she has handled a wide range of cases including business
disputes, professional malpractice defense, construction litigation, employment matters and
insurance issues. She is a cum laude graduate of Loyola University of New Orleans College of
Law, where she was a member of Law Review. In addition to her law practice, Ms. Schnabel is
a member of the Patterson Mediation Group and has trained at Pepperdine University’s Straus
Institute for Dispute Resolution.

She served as Editor of the Louisiana Bar Journal from 2001-2003. When she was sworn
into office on June 9, 2006, Ms. Schnabel became the first woman to serve as President of the
Louisiana State Bar Association. She was honored to receive the LSBA’s President’s Award on
four separate occasions–in 1998, 2004, 2010, and 2014. Ms. Schnabel is also a past President of
the New Orleans Bar Association and the Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel.

The Chief Justice appointed her to the Louisiana Supreme Court’s Judicial Campaign
Oversight Committee in 2007, and in 2014 she became the Committee’s Chairperson. In May of
2010, she was honored as the recipient of the David A. Hamilton Lifetime Achievement Award
for her work as an advocate for Access to Justice. As part of her commitment to public service,
Ms. Schnabel also heads the Board of the non-profit Louisiana Civil Justice Center, an
organization she helped to found in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. She is also the
Chair of the newly formed Louisiana Access To Justice Commission. In 2014, she was honored
to receive the Calogero Justice Award from the Louisiana Bar Foundation, and in 2015 she was
named a “Woman of the Year” by New Orleans City Business.

Ms. Schnabel is currently the Louisiana Representative to DRI, and she is the Vice Chair
of the DRI Law Practice Management Committee. She was recently appointed to the Center for
Law and Public Policy and participated as an author and editor of the DRI Law Practice
Management Handbook, which was published in 2014. She is a frequent lecturer on a variety of
legal issues, including mediation and arbitration, law practice management, ethics, and
professionalism.

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