Attorney Profiles

Mark Jay Krum

Mr. Krum is an experienced trial attorney with an international practice specializing in white collar criminal defense and complex commercial litigation. Mr. Krum also has extensive experience in the areas of professional liability, products liability, major tort, insurance coverage, bad faith, environmental, securities, and class action litigation. Mr. Krum has served as Of Counsel to law firms in Wilmington, Delaware and Boca Raton, Florida. He is a member of the New York, Texas, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming Bars. He has been engaged in the practice of law for more than twenty years.

Mr. Krum was an Associate Independent Counsel with the Office of Independent Counsel - In re Secretary of Agriculture Espy. In that position Mr. Krum served as Senior Trial Counsel. Prior to receiving his appointment with the Office of Independent Counsel, Mr. Krum was Special Counsel to Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based law firm now with more than 450 attorneys.

As a former Assistant United States Attorney with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, Mr. Krum devoted over half a decade to prosecuting white collar crime for the U.S. Department of Justice. During this tenure, Mr. Krum specialized in major financial institution fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and tax-related prosecutions. Mr. Krum served as the lead trial attorney in some of the most celebrated fraud prosecutions for the U.S. Government, including the successful prosecution of one of the nation's largest bank fraud, money laundering and securities fraud cases. Mr. Krum has tried cases of national and international significance as a federal prosecutor, a criminal defense attorney, and civil lawyer, and is recognized as one of the preeminent criminal and civil trial lawyers in America.

As the 1994 recipient of the Federal Bar Association's Younger Federal Lawyer Award, Mr. Krum was recognized as one of five leading government attorneys throughout the nation and overseas. In 1995, Mr. Krum received the U.S. Department of Justice Special Act Award and in 1991, he received the U.S. Department of Justice Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Superior Performance. Mr. Krum was one of the few federal prosecutors to whom Martindale-Hubbell awarded its highest accolade, the "AV" rating. For his work as a Federal Prosecutor, Mr. Krum received special government commendations from the U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno, Directors Louis Freeh and William Sessions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inspector General John J. Adair of the Resolution Trust Corporation, Inspector General James A. Renick of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Director Eljay B. Bowron of the U.S. Secret Service, and Commissioner George J. Weise of the U.S. Customs Service.

Mr. Krum has been an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law where he taught "Advanced Trial Advocacy." Mr. Krum was also an adjunct professor at Stetson University College of Law where he taught "Advanced Criminal Trial Advocacy," a course which he created. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and internationally on white collar crime and the federal criminal justice system. Mr. Krum has served as a regular faculty member and assistant team leader for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy National and Regional Trial Advocacy Programs, the Emory University School of Law Trial Techniques Program, and the University of Florida College of Law Statewide Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Program.

Mr. Krum has been an active member in good standing in the American Bar Association (since 1988) and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (since 1985).

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Carl F. Schoeppl - Special Counsel

Carl F. Schoeppl is a former senior federal prosecutor with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Division of Enforcement, and prosecuted some of the most notable securities fraud cases on behalf of the SEC in federal courts throughout the Southeastern United States, including SEC v. Chapnick, [1993 1994 Transfer Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep (CCH) 98,076 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 11, 1994) (an insider trading and $33 million securities fraud case involving former offices of the failed Commonwealth Savings and Loan Association of Florida); and SEC v. Bradt [Current Transfer Binder] Fed. Sec. L. Rep. (CCH 98,624 (S.D. Fla. Mar. 7, 1995) (a$27 million Ponzi scheme case involving the notorious con-man Thomas R. Mullens and the defunct Omni Capital Group, Ltd.). Mr. Schoeppl also served as Ethics Counsel for the SEC's Southeast Regional Office, and was responsible for rendering ethics opinions and legal advice on ethical issues to a staff of over fifty. Prior to his tenure at the SEC, Mr. Schoeppl was Special Assistant District Attorney in Atlanta, Georgia with responsibility over trying major felony criminal cases. Mr. Schoeppl has been appointed by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, upon the recommendation of the SEC, as the Receiver for five different corporations in an SEC enforcement action styled SEC v. Schaefer, et al., Case No. 98-343-CIV-ORL-22A (M.D. Fla.) ($3.5 million securities fraud/Ponzi scheme case involving the sale of promissory notes). Mr. Schoeppl has also been appointed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, upon the recommendation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), as the Receiver for Transworld Enterprises, Inc. in an FTC enforcement action styled FTC v. Transworld Enterprises, Inc., et al, Case No. 008-8126-CIV-GRAHAM (S.D. Fla.) ($3 million nationwide franchise fraud case involving the sale of ATM business opportunities). In October 2001, Mr. Schoeppl was appointed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, upon the recommendation of the SEC, to serve as the Receiver for U.S. Capital Funding, Inc. in a $48 million securities fraud case styled SEC v. First Capital Services, Inc., et al., Case No. 00-8445-CIV-MIDDLEBROODS (S.D. Fla.). Recently, Mr. Schoeppl was appointed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, upon the recommendation of the FTC, as Temporary Receiver for America's Shopping Network, Inc. (ASN), Consumer Services, Inc., Karen Zagami, Carianne Sica, Louis Gangi, HME, Inc., and John Epstein in an FTC enforcement action styled FTC v. America's Shopping Network, Inc., et al., Case No. 02-80540-CIV-HURLEY (S.D. Fla.). The ASN, the Defendants allegedly conducted a nationwide fraudulent work-at-home scheme.

Mr. Schoeppl has also served as an expert witness for the SEC in SEC v. Web Hosting Headquarters Partnerships, et al., Case No. 00-4975-CIV-HIGHSMITH/GRABER (S.D. Fla.). He has also served as an expert witness in Michael E.Wright v. Sam A. Ruth, Case No. CL-99-4152-AJ (Palm Beach County Cir. Ct.), Dion M. Dorizas d/b/a Atlantic Financial Corporation v. Sir Nick, Inc., et al., Case No. MC-99-6295-RB (Palm Beach County Cir. Ct.), In re: Nat Ruderman Revocable Living Trust: Zucker v. Ruderman, Case No. CP-98-5609-IY (Palm Beach County Cir. Ct.), Thomas F. Mazzei v. Sterling Palmer, et al., Case 00014371 (Broward County Ct.), and Bonnie A. Pearce v. Seawinds Healthcare Services, LLC, Case No. SS-01-733-RD (Palm Beach County Ct.).

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John W. Dill - Special Counsel

John W. Dill is a former law student of Mark Jay Krum. Mr. Krum has taken great pride in mentoring Mr. Dill over the last 15 years. Today, Mr. Dill is a Board Certified Civil Trial Lawyer. He represents clients in a variety of personal injury and complex litigation matters in Florida and throughout the United States. He has tried over seventy five cases to verdict, including one of the longest Federal trials in United States history, lasting more than nine months. Mr. Dill is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization restricting membership to trial advocates who have achieved a verdict or settlement of a million dollars or more. Mr. Dill has received some of the largest personal injury jury verdicts in Florida history, including a recent verdict in Orange County, Florida for twenty-five million dollars.

In 1993, Mr. Dill graduated with honors from Stetson University College of Law after winning numerous awards on Stetson's Trial Team and serving on the law review. During his tenure in law school, Mr. Dill served as Chief Judicial Intern for the Honorable Elizabeth A. Kovachevich. Upon graduation, Mr. Dill worked as a defense attorney representing the country's largest manufacturers and insurance companies. In 1998, he became a named partner in a firm representing victims of negligence and medical malpractice.

Mr. Dill frequently lectures on trial practice and civil procedure. He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and Board Certified. His practice focuses on representing victims of pharmaceutical negligence, medical negligence, nursing home abuse and those killed or catastrophically injured by defective products.

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Stephen Weaver - Special Counsel

Mr. Weaver is a commercial litigator who specializes in complex business disputes. He has represented individual and corporate clients as plaintiffs and defendants through trial and appeal in a wide variety of cases including antitrust/unfair competition, contracts, corporate governance, professional liability, insurance law, securities, bad faith, and class action litigation.

Mr. Weaver graduated with honors from Temple University School of Law where he was managing editor of the law review. He interned as a law clerk in the chambers of A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Mr. Weaver holds an "AV" Martindale Hubbell rating, is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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