David I. Schachter is the Founding Member and Managing Partner of The Schachter Law Firm, LLC. He works extensively in all facets of Divorce and Family Law, including divorce, child custody, child support issues, international child custody disputes, and various other domestic relations matters. Mr. Schachter is regularly retained to represent clients in high-asset divorce cases and complex and highly contested custody and parenting time disputes. He has litigated cases involving high profile individuals and involving cutting edge issues, such as cryptocurrency assets in divorce cases. Mr. Schachter has also testified as an expert witness on legal fees in domestic relations cases. He has been a featured divorce expert on the Buzzcast podcast “Life is Short, Get Divorced,” and a featured legal expert in Newsweek Magazine’s “What Should I Do?” on multiple occasions.
Among other accomplishments, Mr. Schachter has been named to Georgia Super Lawyers every year since 2018. He is rated “AV – Preeminent” by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest possible rating awarded, and he is recognized as one of Georgia’s “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend Magazine. AVVO has awarded David the Client’s Choice Award for Divorce Law and Family Law every year from 2012 to 2024. He has also been featured in the best attorney issues of various publications. Mr. Schachter has successfully prevailed in cases before the Georgia Court of Appeals, and he established precedent in Leone v. Griffin, 342 Ga. App. 474, 803 S.E.2d 617 (2017). You can view the case here or here.
Prior to founding The Schachter Law Firm, LLC, Mr. Schachter both built and managed the Savannah offices of two other family law firms. David’s extensive background in various legal practice areas, gives him a unique understanding of an array of unexpected issues that often arise incidental to Divorce and Family Law matters. Mr. Schachter also practiced law at Parker Rosen, LLC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he represented business owners in commercial disputes including minority shareholder claims, partnership breakups, contract disputes, real estate, and employment litigation. David’s practice ranged from eminent domain and land use to employment law, contract disputes and general business litigation. Prior to joining Parker Rosen, Mr. Schachter practiced law at Hunter Maclean in Savannah, where he focused on business litigation, employment law, drafted loan documents in the area of commercial finance for secured loan transactions involving millions of dollars and worked on various commercial real estate matters.
Mr. Schachter attended law school at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. While in law school, David clerked for the Honorable Ann Aldridge, Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, who President Jimmy Carter appointed as the first female ever to the federal bench. Mr. Schachter was also a member of the Executive Editorial Board of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. Case Western Reserve University School of Law awarded Mr. Schachter multiple CALI Excellence Awards, including in Family Law.
During law school, Mr. Schachter focused much of his studies on family law under the tutelage of renowned Ohio family law attorney Andrew Zashin of Zashin Law a.k.a “The Divorcing Woman’s Best Friend,” and an expert who has handled two of the few family law cases ever to come before the United States Supreme Court regarding The Hague Convention. As acknowledged by Mr. Zashin in the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Mr. Schachter served as a Major Contributor on his published international family law article “Bus Bombings and a Baby’s Custody: Insidious Victories for Terrorism in the Context of International Custody Disputes.” Mr. Schachter also worked on one of the few other family law cases ever to come before the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Schachter still considers Mr. Zashin his mentor, friend, and close confidante to this day, and the two regularly confer with each other on complex family law matters.
