Jonathan Schochor, Founding Partner & Chairman of Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A.
Jonathan Schochor serves as Founding Partner and Chairman at Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. law firm in Baltimore City. He has more than 50 years of litigation experience in the areas of sexual abuse, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and serious personal injury as he tirelessly fights for patients’ rights on behalf of the firm’s clients throughout Maryland and nationwide.
Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. is a recognized leader in sexual abuse cases as well as class action and mass tort litigation. Additionally, the firm has been fighting for patients’ rights as a leading medical malpractice law firm since 1984.
Schochor is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University (1968), and the American University School of Law (1971), where he was Associate Editor-In-Chief of the Law Review and has practiced law continuously since 1971. He has served as a Board Member, Secretary, Vice President, and President of the Maryland Trial Lawyers Association, and has further served as the Maryland State Delegate and Maryland State Governor of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He has focused his practice on the preparation and trial of medical negligence cases for roughly 50 years. Over that period of time, he and his firm have been involved in the investigation of claims and/or representation of plaintiffs in thousands of medical malpractice cases. He and his firm have recovered well over a billion dollars on behalf of his clients. Additionally, he has won numerous local and national awards throughout his legal career.
The firm has offices in Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Its lawyers are licensed to practice in Maryland and the District of Columbia, and they have been specially admitted on a case-by-case basis by courts in Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, North Carolina, West Virginia and other states. On special motion and with approval of courts elsewhere, the firm’s lawyers are available to participate in cases throughout the United States. To learn more, visit: sfspa.com.
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Andrew S. Janet, Partner and Co-Chair of the Sexual Abuse Division, Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC
As Partner and Co-Chair of the Sexual Abuse Division at Janet, Janet & Suggs, LLC, Andrew Janet leads the national law firm based in Baltimore City. The firm specializes in the areas of sexual abuse, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and serious personal injury throughout Maryland and nationwide. Janet and his team represent those who have suffered rape, sexual coercion, assault, and harassment at the hands of abusers and institutions that allowed the abuse.
Additionally, Janet assumed a leading role in advocating for hundreds of abuse survivors in litigation against University of Southern California (USC) regarding allegations of sexual misconduct by its former gynecologist, Dr. George Tyndall. His efforts on behalf of 139 plaintiffs who brought litigation against USC related to sexual abuse, assault, and harassment by Dr. Tyndall helped effectuate a $852 million resolution with the university. The groundbreaking settlement was the largest known recovery in a sexual abuse case in U.S. history, as well as the largest known personal injury settlement against a university.
Janet’s honors include: Maryland Super Lawyers Rising Star, Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America, The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 Under 40, National Trial Lawyers Top 10 (Environmental) and National Trial Lawyers Top 25 (Medical Malpractice). Andrew was also honored as a 2024 Influential Marylander by The Daily Record and a 2025 Emerging Leader honoree by The Baltimore Banner.
Janet graduated from New York University School of Law where he served as Executive Editor of the NYU Law Review. He was the first NYU School of Law alumnus to have two articles published in the school’s Law Review as a student. He graduated cum laude from both the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Gilman School.
Janet, Janet & Suggs is a Maryland-based national law firm with offices in nine states and Washington, D.C. The firm is noted for its expertise and accomplishments in cases involving birth injury and other medical malpractice, sexual abuse, defective medical devices, dangerous medications, other personal injuries, and numerous other high stakes matters. The firm has decades of experience handling catastrophic injury cases and has won over three billion dollars in verdicts and settlements for clients across a wide range of serious and complex cases.
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David Nevins is president & CEO of Nevins & Associates, a highly regarded strategic communications company and proactive public relations partner. The firm’s regional and national client base is a unique mix of organizations across a variety of industries including: healthcare, professional service firms, finance, not-for-profits, distributors, state agencies, national media companies, technology, political and grassroots campaigns, real estate development, sporting events, and more.
With more than 30 years of experience in marketing, public relations, and community and government relations, David is a talented and seasoned executive. Prior to founding Nevins & Associates in 1983, David served as the Director of Marketing for both Towson University and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In 2001, he was tapped by the CEO of Comcast to employ his marketing expertise as President of the company’s regional sports network, Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic. David is a Past President of the Board of Governors for the Center Club and is a former Chairman of the Board of Regents for the University System of Maryland, a position to which he was appointed by the Governor of Maryland. David has chaired the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission and the Maryland Higher Education Loan Corporation, served as President of both the Jewish National Fund and the Towson Business Association and was a member of the PNC Bank board.
David is highly involved in the business, civic, and political communities, and his many years of active leadership in numerous organizations have built a network of contacts that he regularly puts to use for the firm’s clients. For more information, visit www.nevinspr.com.
