Alan Schnurman

ALAN SCHNURMAN

Alan Schnurman, is Co-Founder Lawline.com was recently honored by the New York City Trial Lawyers’ Association with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Alan has been practicing law in New York City for 36 years. He started and still hosts a well-known cable television show, Lawline, which gave birth to Lawline.com in 1999. In addition to being the founder, Alan Schnurman is a faculty member, having taught multiple Continuing Legal Education courses on Negotiation, Marketing and Personal Injury.

Alan is a senior partner in the law firm of Zalman & Schnurman. Founded in 1980, the firm has a successful practice specializing in litigation.

He is the founding host of LAWLINE, a television program focusing on legal news and trends that has aired in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for 18 years. Mr. Schnurman is currently Treasurer of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association and a former President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of the City of New York.

He was Chairperson of the 1999 New York State Trial Lawyers Association’s Annual Convention, and is chairperson of the annual lecture series “Marketing: The Business of Law”, New York State Trial Lawyers. Mr. Schnurman is highly regarded among his peers throughout the legal profession for his creative approach to legal issues.

Through his law firm, Zalman & Schnurman, whose practice is limited to personal injury and insurance law, he has won handsome financial awards on behalf of his clients. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Schnurman has served on a number of local and state panels.

Alan is affectionately called “the Larry King of Law”, and his web presence is becoming the most powerful and most respected voice on law related matters. He is also often called “the 21st century entrepreneur of the legal profession”. That is simply because he is also an incredible marketer.

Any one wanting to succeed online will have to learn simple but powerful concepts from these giants. These guys know that without marketing and sales, nothing happens. So, if they are not personally gifted in these areas, they make every effort to surround themselves with those that are. In Alan’s case, he just so happened to be an excellent marketer himself, and this skill is extremely valuable in the online world.