JEREMY WYETH SCHULMAN

Founding member of Schulman Bhattacharya and Chairman of the Firm’s Commercial Litigation and Arbitration Group

Background:

Prior to founding Schulman Bhattacharya, Jeremy Wyeth Schulman was Vice Chair of the Commercial Litigation Department of Shulman Rogers, and before that was a leading commercial litigator in the Washington office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, the New York and Washington offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and the New York office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP. He began his career as a law clerk to the Honorable John M. Steadman, Associate Judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.

Jeremy Schulman earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law where he was the Articles Editor of the Buffalo Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and government from Cornell University. He is proud to serve on the Advisory Board of the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland and to support a variety of other civic causes both locally and internationally.

Just what is commercial litigation though?

General commercial litigation involves almost every type of dispute that can arise in the business context, including breach of contract cases, partnership/joint venture disputes, class actions, business torts, civil RICO claims, breach of fiduciary duty allegations, and shareholder issues. Focuses on businesses and not consumer / peer-to-peer.

Schulman Bhattacharya Bethesda, Maryland Practice:

His practice is highly diversified, with a concentration in complex commercial litigation matters, international and domestic arbitration, internal investigations, and corporate counseling. He has represented numerous foreign governments, real estate owners and developers, homebuilders, hotel ownership and management companies, hotel franchisors, pharmaceutical companies, major foreign and domestic financial institutions, insurance companies, trading concerns, media companies, energy joint ventures, brewers and an airport development company. Mr. Schulman regularly appears before federal and state courts in the Washington, D.C. area and throughout the United States and various international and domestic arbitral tribunals.

Mr. Schulman works tirelessly to resolve disputes for his clients as efficiently and effectively as possible. He places great emphasis on creative problem solving, frequently steering disputes to resolution through informal negotiation or mediation. Mr. Schulman is also an experienced trial lawyer, having successfully handled numerous contested proceedings, including jury and non-jury court trials, merits arbitration hearings, temporary restraining order and injunction hearings, dispositive motions hearings and other evidentiary proceedings.

Jeremy Schulman has been involved in difficult and complex cases that span across the globe and has become one of the premier attorneys that foreign governments call.