Before joining the firm, George Schneider had a long career in public service. 

He served as the Essex County Prosecutor (1981-86), First Assistant Prosecutor in the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office (2002-08), NJ Deputy Attorney General, Division of Criminal Justice (1970-75), Chief Trial Counsel in the Criminal Division (1973-75), and Deputy Public Defender, Essex Trial Region (1967-70).  In 20 years of private practice, he has been a prominent criminal and civil trial attorney, trying over 150 jury trials to a verdict in New Jersey State Courts and Federal District Courts in New Jersey.

While serving as the Chief Trial Counsel for the Attorney General’s Division of Criminal Justice, Mr. Schneider prosecuted many of the celebrated organized crime and political corruption cases throughout New Jersey in the 1970’s, including the first wiretap prosecutions in seven counties.  As Essex County Prosecutor, he founded a Career Criminal Program targeted at vertical prosecution of repeat offenders, a Welfare Fraud Squad, a Child Abuse and Domestic Violence Squad, a Special Prosecutions Section, an Arson Squad, a Toxic and Hazardous Waste Squad, and a Victim-Witness Assistance Program.  Mr. Schneider successfully prosecuted the case State v. Ramseur, the first capital case after the reinstitution of the death penalty, and State v. Rose, which involved the murder of an Irvington police officer.