Kurt Schlichter is a successful trial lawyer based in the Los Angeles area representing companies and individuals in matters ranging from routine business cases to confidential Hollywood and entertainment industry disputes and transactions. A member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which recognizes attorneys who have won trial verdicts in excess of $1 million, his litigation strategy and legal analysis articles have run in such legal publications such as the
Los Angeles Daily Journal and
California Lawyer. Kurt is a 1994 graduate of Loyola Law School, where he was a law review editor. He majored in Communications and Political Science as an undergraduate at the University of California, San Diego, where he also edited the student paper
California Review while writing a regular column in the student humor paper the
Koala. After college, Kurt enlisted in the United States Army and received his commission as a second lieutenant through the Army Officer Candidate School. While stationed in West Germany, Kurt was deployed to Operation Desert Storm when he served in the conflict as a platoon leader. After leaving active duty, he joined the California Army National Guard and served in a variety of command and staff positions for over two decades. Colonel Schlichter wears the silver “jump wings” of a qualified paratrooper and commanded the elite 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment. A veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom (Kosovo), as well as the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake and the 2007 San Diego fires mobilizations, he is a graduate of the Army’s Combined Arms Staff Service School and the Command and General Staff College. He earned a master of Strategic Studies degree from the United States Army War College. His freelance writing been published in major papers like the
New York Post, the
Washington Examiner, the
Los Angeles Times, the
Boston Globe, the
Washington Times, the
Army Times, and the
San Francisco Examiner. Kurt also wrote for Breitbart.com’s
Big Hollywood, Big Government,
Big Journalism and
Big Peace sites and is a weekly columnist for
Townhall.com. As a stand-up comic for several years, he has gathered a large and devoted following in the world of social media for his amusing and often biting conservative commentary. He is an active user of Twitter (
@KurtSchlichter) with over 37,000 followers, which led to his four #1 selling Amazon “Political Humor” ebooks “I Am a Conservative,” “I Am a Liberal,” “Fetch My Latte,” and “Fifty Shades of Liberal.” Kurt is often on the air as a news source, an on-screen commentator, and as a guest on nationally syndicated radio programs discussing political, military and legal issues, including
Fox News, the
Hugh Hewitt Show, the
Dennis Miller Show,
Geraldo, the
Greg Garrison Show, the
WMAL Morning Show with Larry O’Connor, the
Larry Elder Show, and KABC’s
John Phillips Show, among others. Kurt is married to Irina and has two children. He lives in the South Bay area of Los Angeles.
