He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature at Brigham Young University in 1996, where he was a Trustee Scholar. He obtained his Juris Doctorate at Michigan State College of law in 2000, where he was an officer of the MSU chapter of Amnesty International. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, Mr. Schofield practiced commercial law with a firm in Dearborn, Michigan that had an affiliate relationship with an Anglo-Kuwaiti law firm. Mr. Schofield has handled a diverse range of commercial litigation and transactional matters, including litigation and arbitration in state, federal, and international courts, defense contract negotiation and management, small and medium-sized business and real estate transactions, Islamic finance issues, corporate issues, and trademark registrations and disputes.