Mark J. Krum, Attorney

Mark J. Krum serves as Special Counsel to the Law Firm of Schoeppl & Burke, P.A., and is bases in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  Mr. Krum is an experienced trial attorney with an emphasis in complex commercial litigation matters.  Mr. Krum also has extensive experience in the areas of professional liability, products liability, major tort, insurance coverage, bad faith, class action litigation, and white collar criminal defense.  Mr. Krum is a member of the New York, Texas District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming Bars.

Mr. Krum was an Associate Independent Counsel with the Office of Independent Counsel-In re Secretary of Agriculture Espy. In that position Mr. Krum served as Senior Trial Counsel. Prior to receiving his appointment with the Office of Independent Counsel, Mr. Krum was Special Counsel to Blank Rome Comisky & McCauley, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based law firm with over 225 attorneys.

As a former Assistant United States Attorney with the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, Mr. Krum devoted over half a decade to prosecuting white collar crime for the U.S. Department of Justice. During this tenure, Mr. Krum specialized in major financial institution fraud, securities fraud, money laundering, and tax-related prosecutions. Mr. Krum served as the lead trial attorney in some of the most celebrated fraud prosecutions for the U.S. Government, including the successful prosecution of one of the nation's largest bank fraud, money laundering and securities fraud cases. Mr. Krum has tried cases of national and international significance as a federal prosecutor, a criminal defense attorney, and civil lawyer, and is recognized as one of the preeminent criminal and civil trial lawyers in America.

As the 1994 recipient of the Federal Bar Association's Younger Federal Lawyer Award, Mr. Krum was recognized as one of five leading government attorneys throughout the nation and overseas. In 1995, Mr. Krum received the U.S. Department of Justice Special Act Award and in 1991, he received the U.S. Department of Justice Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Superior Performance. Mr. Krum was one of the few federal prosecutors to whom Martindale-Hubbell awarded its highest accolade, the "AV" rating.  For his work as a Federal Prosecutor, Mr. Krum received special government commendations from the U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno, Directors Louis Freeh and William Sessions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Inspector General John J. Adair of the Resolution Trust Corporation, Inspector General James A. Renick of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Director Eljay B. Bowron of the U.S. Secret Service and  Commissioner George J. Weise of the U.S. Customs Service.

Mr. Krum is an adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law where he teaches "Advanced Trial Advocacy." Mr. Krum was also an adjunct professor at Stetson University College of Law where he taught "Advanced Criminal Trial Advocacy," a course which he created. He has lectured extensively throughout the United States and internationally on white collar crime and the federal criminal justice system. Mr. Krum serves as a regular faculty member and assistant team leader for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy National and Regional Trial Advocacy Programs, the Emory University School of Law Trial Techniques Program, and the University of Florida College of Law Statewide Prosecutor/Public Defender Trial Training Program.