[3] Schoen also represented Roger Stone during his trial related to charges made during the Mueller investigation and briefly Jeffrey Epstein before his suicide.

[7] Schoen closed his argument on day one with an emotional recital of a portion of the 1849 poem, "The Building of the Ship" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[10] While the argument of co-counsel Bruce Castor was widely panned, The New York Times credited Schoen with offering "a more spirited performance" that "heartened" the former president.

[21] During his presentation on the first day of the Trump impeachment trial, Schoen drew attention for his practice of covering his head with his hand every time he took a sip of water.

Fellow Jews speculated that Schoen was either reflexively reaching to keep a phantom yarmulke from falling off[22] or covering his head with his hand while saying a blessing over his water.

"[24] Schoen also noted that he was touched by moving emails from others who struggled with issues concerning the wearing of head covering: "It was never my intention to make any sort of statement, and I am not learned enough to inspire in any other way, but if this experience and the discussion that flowed from it had any positive impact in any way, then I am really honored to have been a part of that, even if unwittingly.