Bruce A. Schoenberg

Bruce A. Schoenberg received his J.D. degree magna cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 1988, where he graduated in the top 1% of his class.  While at Cardozo, Bruce was an Alexander Fellow, a Belkin Scholar, a member of the Cardozo Law Review and a judicial intern to the Honorable Leonard B. Sand of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  Bruce began his undergraduate education at Simon's Rock Early College at the age of 15.  After receiving an A.A. degree from Simon's Rock, he transferred to the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he graduated with distinction and received a B.S. in political science.

Upon graduation from law school, Bruce joined the New York law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, where he was an associate in the litigation department.  In 1990, Bruce joined the firm of Sills Cummis Zuckerman Tischman Radin Epstein & Gross, P.A.  Between 1994 and 2001, Bruce was of counsel to several national law firms, including Townley & Updike, Dorsey & Whitney LLP and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP.  In July 2001, Bruce became a founding partner of Schrader & Schoenberg.

Bruce has extensive experience in securities, commodities, RICO, banking, antitrust, employment, franchise, intellectual property and general business litigation.  He has handled a wide range of complex commercial litigations including the defense of issuers and their officers, directors, attorneys and accountants in securities fraud actions and derivative suits; the representation of brokerage firms, individual brokers and customers in litigations and in arbitrations; the representation of banks and other financial institutions in connection with disputes arising under the Uniform Commercial Code; the defense and prosecution of antitrust claims; the representation of manufacturers in connection with numerous dealer and distributor termination litigations, partnership disputes and the enforcement of post-employment restrictive convenants on behalf of various high-technology start-up companies.

Several of Bruce's cases have received media attention, including Securities and Exchange Commission v. SEC v. Cedric Kushner Promotions, et al., U.S.D.C., S.D.N.Y. (Docket No. 04 Civ. 2324)(TG), in which he obtained a large award of attorneys’ fees against the SEC on behalf of the director of a public company wrongfully named in a securities fraud action, Marion v. Romer, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Bergen Courty (Docket No. L-6888-91), in which he obtained a $6.5 million jury verdict on behalf of a family that had been defrauded by their former attorney, and Geist v. New Jersey Turnpike Authority, (D.N.J.)(Civil Action No. 92-2377), a $416 million bond fraud class action defense.   Bruce has also been involved in several reported decisions, including In re R.B.B., Inc., 211 F.3d 475 (9th Cir. 2000); Indianapolis Colts, Inc. v. Metropolitan Baltimore Football Club, L.P., 34 F.3d 410 (7th Cir.); Fahlenbach v. Transpacific Capital (USA), Inc., 1996 WL 22602 (S.D.N.Y. 1996) and Fisk v. Superannuities, Inc. 927 F. Supp. 718 (S.D.N.Y. 1996).

Bruce is the immediate past Articles Coordinator for the American Bar Association’s Securities Litigation Journal, a former regional editor of the American Bar Association's Class Action and Derivative Suits Newsletter, and has written numerous articles, including: “From Here to Eternity: Limiting the Class Period in a Fraud-on-the-Market Case,” ABA Class Action and Derivative Suits Newsletter, Vol. 6 No. 3 (Fall 1996); “Providing Notice of Pendency to Beneficial Shareholders in Rule 26(b)(3) Class Actions:  Developing a Hybrid Approach,” ABA Class Action and Derivative Suits Newsletter, Vol. 4 No. 2 (Summer 1994); “A Family Affair:  When Does a Close Family Relationship Between Class Counsel and the Class Representative Defeat Class Certification?,” ABA Class Action and Derivative Suits Newsletter, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Summer 1993)(with Jeffrey J. Greenbaum); “Legal Ethics:  Conflicts and the Mobile Attorney – When to Build a Chinese Wall,” published in Legal Ethics “Everything a Lawyer Needs to Know and Should Not be Afraid to Ask.” Practicing Law Inst. Pub. No. H4-5043(1988)(with Sheldon Raab).

Bruce is a member of the New York and New Jersey bars, and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in New York and New Jersey.  He has also appeared in various arbitral fora, including before the National Association of Securities Dealers, the New York Stock Exchange and the American Arbitration Association.