E. Randol Schoenberg, an attorney and law professor in California, is world famous for his case for a family friend, Maria Altmann, who was trying to recover five prized paintings by Gustav Klimt that Nazi authorities in Austria had stolen in 1938 from Altmann’s family.

In the movie about this case, “Woman in Gold”, Schoenberg is played by Ryan Reynolds. E. Randol Schoenberg is 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.

Mr. Schoenberg has tried and argued cases before the United States Supreme Court, Second and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, United States District Court, California Court of Appeal and the Los Angeles Superior Court.