E. Randol Schoenberg

E. Randol Schoenberg (born 1966) is a U.S. attorney, based in Los Angeles, California. He is the grandson of the Austrian composers Arnold Schoenberg and Eric Zeisl.

He represented Maria Altmann in her suit to obtain five Gustav Klimt paintings from the estate of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer as well as the "Palais," [ [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000088&sid=a69ZKNSICRss&refer=culture Bloomberg.com: Culture ] ] the Viennese house in which the paintings were originally housed. Ms. Altmann won her case before the Supreme Court of the United States against the government of Austria in "Republic of Austria v. Altmann" in 2004. Schoenberg operated on a no-win, no-fee basis and reportedly received 40% of the proceeds from the Klimt paintings, [ [http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=460 The Art Newspaper ] ] [ [http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0724/056a.html Klimt-astic Deal - Forbes.com ] ] amounting to a legal fee of over $120 million.

E. Randol Schoenberg presently serves as the President of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.

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* [http://www.schoenberglaw.com/ Law practice of E. Randol Schoenberg]
* [http://www.adele.at/ History of the Maria Altmann legal cases]
* [http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/klimt/index.aspx Information on the Klimt paintings]
* [http://www.lamoth.org Information on the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust]