Los Angeles Master Chorale Appoints Pasadena Resident David Scheidemantle and Jon Rewinski to Board of Directors

Distinguished attorneys David Scheidemantle of Pasadena and Jon Rewinski have been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, announces LAMC Chair David Gindler. Scheidemantle, President and Managing Partner of Scheidemantle Law Group P.C., focuses his practice on complex business litigation and insurance coverage. A Juilliard-trained violinist and dedicated philanthropist as well, he has provided pro bono legal services to numerous non-profit organizations. He served on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus for six years, including as Chair from 2009-2012, and was honored with the Rebecca Thompson Founder’s Award for his judicious leadership. He also founded the Scripps-Scheidemantle Law Internship for Rising First Years at Scripps College for Women; was a Founding Board Member, President and Chair of Friends of the Levitt Pavilion-Pasadena; and served on the West Coast Council of Chairman Zubin Mehta’s American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic. Rewinski, a Partner of Locke Lord LLP, practices all phases of civil litigation before state, federal and bankruptcy courts. He has successfully tried or arbitrated numerous cases during his 30-year career and has experience in a wide variety of areas, such as antitrust, securities litigation, franchise law, class action liability litigation, corporate dissolutions, derivative actions, intellectual property, and other tort and commercial matters. His broad community leadership includes serving as Trustee and Vice President of the Dan Murphy Foundation, and member of the Chancery Club, the Catholic Schools Consortium Council of Advisors and the Order of Malta. Rewinski also regularly teaches seminars and publishes articles on legal ethics and professional responsibility.

“We are very pleased to welcome Jon and David to our Board of Directors,” says Gindler. “They bring to the Chorale consummate leadership, prudent business insights, and deep dedication to this art form and to the organization.”

Giving a voice to Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Grammy-nominated Los Angeles Master Chorale is led by Artistic Director Grant Gershon. Currently in its 51st season, the Chorale performs choral music from the earliest writings to the most recent contemporary compositions. It has received three ASCAP/Chorus America Awards for Adventurous Programming as well as Chorus America’s prestigious Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence. Its discography includes five commercial CDs under Gershon’s baton. In addition, in 2013, as part of its 50th anniversary season, the Chorale released a digital recording featuring signature a cappella works available online-only at LAMC.org, iTunes and Amazon.com. LAMC previously released three CDs under former Music Director Paul Salamunovich on RCM, including the Grammy-nominated Lauridsen-Lux Aeterna. Serving more than 30,000 audience members of all ages annually, the Los Angeles Master Chorale also provides education outreach to 6,000 students each year.

David R. Scheidemantle is President and Managing Partner of Scheidemantle Law Group P.C. His practice is focused on complex business litigation, insurance coverage counseling and litigation on behalf of policyholders, products liability litigation, toxic tort defense, business contract negotiation, and general counseling. Prior to founding his current firm, he was Co-Managing Partner of Connon Wood Scheidemantle LLP; an equity partner for 10 years at Proskauer Rose LLP; and an attorney with Cahill Gordon & Reindel and Shearman & Sterling. In 2014, Scheidemantle received a Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating of AV Preeminent, founded the Scripps-Scheidemantle Law Internship for Rising First Years at Scripps College for Women, and was honored with the Rebecca Thompson Founder’s Award from Los Angeles Children’s Chorus, of which he served as Board Chair from 2009-2012. Scheidemantle is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a society of trial lawyers limited to one-half of one percent of American lawyers. Licensed in California, New York and Wisconsin, Scheidemantle is a member of the federal and state courts in all three states, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Second and Ninth Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States. He graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, where he served as editor of the Fordham Law Review. He was a judicial law clerk to Judge Inzer B. Wyatt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and Judge William H. Timbers of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before entering law school, Scheidemantle received a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where, as a violinist, he was Concertmaster of the Juilliard Symphony, the Juilliard Philharmonia and the National Orchestra of New York. He has performed as a violinist with LACC at its home in Southern California as well as in China. Committed to pro bono legal representation, Scheidemantle won the release under the Battered Women’s Syndrome Act of a woman who had been incarcerated for 20 years. He also has represented numerous non-profit arts and educational organizations, including Pasadena Junior Theater, Suzuki Music Association of California, Renaissance Arts Academy and American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic, where he sat on Chairman Zubin Mehta’s West Coast Council, and Friends of the Levitt Pavilion-Pasadena, of which he was a founding board member, President and Chair.

Jon L. Rewinski‘s practice includes all phases of civil litigation before state, federal and bankruptcy courts. In his 30 years of practice, Rewinski has tried or arbitrated dozens of cases. Rewinski has experience in a wide variety of areas, including antitrust, securities litigation, franchise law, class action litigation, corporate dissolutions, derivative actions, intellectual property, and other tort and commercial matters. Rewinski has also represented a securities brokerage firm in regulatory and DOJ investigations and litigation following the collapse of a hedge fund; a securities brokerage firm in a regulatory investigation over alleged revenue sharing arrangements with mutual funds; a securities brokerage firm in the first enforcement proceeding asserted by the SEC under the USA PATRIOT Act; a major accounting firm in an SEC/DOJ investigation concerning the collapse of an audit client; representing an airline in consolidated class actions alleging a conspiracy to fix the prices of passenger tickets; Microsoft in antitrust litigation asserted by certain competitors and consumer groups; Philip Morris USA Inc. in Lanham Act proceedings over the unauthorized use of its registered marks in Internet sales; and the manufacturer of a concrete admixture in class actions and mass actions alleging purported construction defects. Rewinski also regularly teaches seminars and publishes articles on legal ethics and professional responsibility. Since 2002, he has co-authored an annual review of California ethics decisions published in Los Angeles Lawyer. He is a former member of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct and a former Chair and member of the Los Angeles County Bar’s Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee.