Randy Schoenberg

E. Randol Schoenberg was the co-founding partner of Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP, where he handled a number of complex business litigation matters, specializing in cases involving looted art and the recovery of property stolen by the Nazi authorities during the Holocaust. He won the return of five famous Klimt paintings for his client, Maria Altmann.

In 2007, Mr. Schoenberg received the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year award for outstanding achievement in the field of litigation. He also received the 2006 Jurisprudence Award from the Anti-Defamation League and the Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award from the American Jewish Congress.

Mr. Schoenberg graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1988 and a certificate in European Cultural Studies. In 1991, he received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California.

His interests include classical music, tennis, skiing, genealogy, art, basketball, law, mathematics, backpacking, philately, German, French, and computers. He serves on the board of the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, Southwest Chamber Music Society, Choral Society of Southern California, and the L.A. Jewish Symphony. He has an avid genealogist since he was 8 years old, maintains a huge family tree both on JewishGen and Geni, is responsible for JOWBR’s 150,000 Austrian cemetery records and is the Co-Founder, Coodinator and Moderator for the JewishGen Austria-Czech Special Interest Group http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/ . He is the author of the Beginner's Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/ausguide.htm and the co-author of Getting Started with Czech-Jewish Genealogy http://www.jewishgen.org/austriaczech/czechguide.html .