Mychal Schulz

Mychal Schulz is a shareholder in the Litigation, Employment & Labor Services, and Energy & Natural Resources groups of Babst Calland. Mr. Schulz has extensive experience litigating matters in state and federal courts throughout West Virginia. He has been lead trial counsel in both state and federal courts on a variety of matters, including employment, premises liability, insurance bad faith and coverage, commercial, officers and directors liability, ERISA, product liability, consumer protection and criminal matters. In addition, Mychal routinely handles creditor-rights matters in Bankruptcy Court. He has appeared before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the United States Circuit Court for the Fourth Circuit and the West Virginia Intermediate Court of Appeals.

Mychal Schulz graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in 1987. He received his M.A. from the University of Virginia in 1990 and J.D. from the William and Mary School of Law in 1992. Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mychal Schulz has spent his entire legal career litigating throughout West Virginia in federal and state courts. He is the current president-elect of the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, the immediate past Chair of the Board of Leadership West Virginia, and the outgoing co-chair of the Human Resources Committee of the West Virginia Manufacturers Association.

In addition to his legal work, Mr. Schulz is a USTA/ITA certified tennis official who officiates matches in the Mountain East Conference, is a broadcaster for the University of Charleston men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, and volleyball teams, and is co-host of “The Tailgate,” a weekly sports talk show on WTSQ 88.1 in Charleston.