Jonathan (second from left) with his sons (left to right) Aaron, an architect; Josh, an attorney with Boies & Schiller; and Zack, a film producer.
There are some firms that are much bigger than ours, but they can’t do what our people can do. We are litigators. We’re one of the biggest fighting machines in the world.. — Jonathan Schiller make Schiller a standout attorney also make him a good friend.
“Jonathan has an ability to put himself in someone else’s shoes and
understand what they are thinking and what they want, and he plays to that,” Lamade said. “As a friend, he genuinely knows and cares about
what you want. As a litigator, he knows what his opponent is thinking and where he or she is coming from — and I think that helps him
tremendously as an attorney because he can anticipate moves. So it works both on the friendship side and on the professional side.”
On the professional side, Schiller admits that he doesn’t know what
the future will bring for BSF, but he is excited to find out.
“I continue to have that same spirit I had back when Ed Barton
picked me up off the ground at the Boys & Girls Club and asked me if I wanted to go to Landon,” Schiller said. “Every day I get up and want to go do something, and that’s part of the experience of being in the
communities I have been in and being part of the family I was raised in... and having a lot of attitude.”
SUMMER 2017 | LANDON SCHOOL
In 2012, Jonathan (pictured above center, with then-Columbia Board of Trustees Chair Bill Campbell, left, and law partner David Boies, right) received Columbia University’s Alexander Hamilton Medal for “distinguished service and accomplishment.”
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