About Jill M. Schinske

Jill M. Schinske earned her J.D. from Wayne State University Law School, graduating cum laude, and served as a Note and Comment Editor of the Wayne Law Review. She has been licensed to practice law in Michigan since 2007. Her professional licenses and affiliations include the Federal District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. She is a member of the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan and the Wayne County Criminal Defense Bar. Ms. Schinske also holds a membership with the Association of Professional Responsibilities Lawyers, an organization for ethics attorneys to share advice with one another.

She began building her extensive litigation experience as a contract attorney and law clerk to Kenneth M. Mogill in May 2007. She also took on a public defender role as a court-appointed attorney for the 46th, 47th, and 52-1 District Courts serving Southfield, Farmington Hills, and Novi, Michigan.

In June 2008, she joined the Legal Aid and Defender Association as one of the Detroit organization’s deputy defenders, providing criminal defense to low- and moderate-income residents in Wayne County. In this role, she represented criminal defendants charged with both capital and noncapital offenses through all stages of proceedings and conducted numerous jury and bench trials.

Ms. Schinske joined Lake Orion’s Mogill, Posner & Cohen as an associate attorney in October 2011, handling pretrial conferences, plea negotiations, evidentiary hearings, motion, trials, sentencings, and violation of probation hearings.

She has represented lawyers through the stages of the grievance process including responding to investigations, negotiations, consent proposals, answers to formal complaints, sworn statements, petitions for reinstatement and assisted in misconduct hearings, sanction hearings, and appeals to the Attorney Discipline Board.

She has also represented applicants to the Michigan State Bar in Character and Fitness proceedings, starting from the beginning by assisting with completing the application and representing applicants in District Committee, Standing Committee and Board of Law Examiner hearings.

Ms. Schinske established her own practice in October 2014. In addition to specializing in criminal defense, attorney grievance defense, and character and fitness, she also focuses on representing clients facing issues with expungement, driver’s license restoration, contempt hearings, PPO hearings, and family law. Her extensive research background and knowledgeable application of trial and appellate procedures ensure all of her clients receive highly-skilled, attentive legal representation.

Contact Ms. Schinske to discuss what she can do for you.