Attorneys | Alexander Schmidt | Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP

New York
270 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10016

Phone:	212-545-4723
Fax:	212-545-4794
Email:	schmidt@whafh.com

Alexander H. Schmidt is a partner of the firm. He concentrates on sophisticated commercial litigation and class actions, including matters involving antitrust, banking, commercial factoring, securities fraud, civil RICO, real estate, intra-corporate and partnership disputes, and legal and accounting malpractice.
Mr. Schmidt combines insight, creativity and incisive analysis in his trial and appellate practice. He has a demonstrated ability to anticipate emerging legal trends, which has resulted in several groundbreaking litigation achievements. Recently, Mr. Schmidt obtained a landmark ruling from New York's highest court on behalf of a class of tenants from New York City's largest residential apartment complex, Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, who had challenged their landlords' right to deregulate rent stabilized apartments while simultaneously receiving certain New York City tax benefits. Roberts v. Tishman Speyer Properties, L.P. (N.Y. Ct. Appeals). Mr. Schmidt also conceived and helped sustain a precedent setting Kodak aftermarket monopolization claim in an antitrust and computer fraud and abuse act class action brought by purchasers of Apple's highly popular iPhone, who are challenging Apple's undisclosed, five-year exclusive service contract with AT&T Mobility. In re Apple & ATTM Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Ca.). Mr. Schmidt was also co-lead counsel in a widely-watched shareholder derivative action challenging Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch. In re Bank of America Shareholders Derivative Litigation (Del. Chanc. Ct.).
Mr. Schmidt's other noteworthy successes include Dresses For Less, Inc. v. CIT Group/Commercial Services, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.) (sustaining Sherman Act claims against commercial factoring industry); Atkins & O’Brien L.L.P. v. ISS Int’l Serv. Sys. (N.Y. App. Div.) (lawyers could recover future fees under estoppel exception to general rule that client can terminate relationship at any time); Bank Brussels Lambert v. Credit Lyonnais (Suisse) S.A. (S.D.N.Y.) (attorney client privilege held waived as to inadvertently disclosed documents).
Mr. Schmidt is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey and before the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.
He was an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in 1998 and 1999, where he co-taught a seminar on Federal Discovery Practice.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook (B.A. 1981), he received his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 1985. Mr. Schmidt served as the Executive Notes & Topics Editor for the Law Review.