B.A., Brandeis University; J.D., Northwestern
B.A., Brandeis; J.D., Northwestern. Professor Schulman is the pro bono partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, responsible for leading the firm’s pro bono practice worldwide. Professor Schulman maintains a substantive practice in many areas of public interest law, including human rights, immigration, issues affecting military personnel and charter schools. Professor Schulman joined Akin Gump as its first full-time pro bono partner in 2006, after leading Latham & Watkins’ pro bono practice from 2001-2004. While at Latham & Watkins, he developed and implemented that firm’s signature Child Refugee Project, assisting unaccompanied alien children in the United States through individual representation, legislative counseling and systemic reform. Professor Schulman is co-president of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel; a board member of Appleseed, board member of the International Senior Lawyers Project, a member of the Board of Advocates of Human Rights First and the legal advisory board of the Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition. He served as co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation Pro Bono and Public Interest Litigation Committee (2002-2005) and on the ABA Commission on Immigration (2004-2005).
Prior to becoming Pro Bono Partner at Akin Gump, Professor Schulman had extensive experience in antitrust and white collar criminal matters. In private antitrust litigation, Professor Schulman represented clients in a variety of industries, including defense contracting and healthcare. In mergers and acquisitions, Professor Schulman represented clients in dozens of transactions before the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Reported merger cases include FTC v. Libbey and FTC v. Swedish Match. Professor Schulman also has represented corporations in criminal matters and internal investigations. Professor Schulman represented the Salt Lake Olympic Organizing Committee in its successful defense of a federal criminal probe into its Olympic bidding practices. He also conducted an internal investigation for the Board of Directors of the Ford Motor Company concerning tread separations on Firestone tires used on Ford Explorers.