Rob Schultz
OVERVIEW
Rob is a competition and commercial disputes lawyer with a focus on complex and novel claimant class action proceedings.
Expertise
Rob joined Hausfeld in May 2024 from Milberg London LLP. The focus of his work is competition/antitrust and pursuing complex funded and unfunded private client and group civil litigation claims.
Rob came to London after completing an LLM the United States in 2020 and gained experience in international commercial and investor-state arbitration as an Associate in Baker Botts LLP’s International Disputes team.
Rob began his litigation career as a Barrister and Solicitor at LeeSalmonLong, a Legal 500 Band 1 boutique litigation firm in Auckland, New Zealand (2015-2019) where he acted as sole and junior counsel before the New Zealand courts and in commercial arbitrations.
Prior to commencing practice, Rob completed a two-year judicial clerkship at the Court of Appeal of New Zealand, clerking for the Hon Justice Sir Douglas White KC in Wellington, New Zealand (2013-2014).
Rob is an advanced non-native speaker of German and is learning Spanish.
EDUCATION
Master of Laws (LLM) (Fulbright Scholar, James Kent Scholar), Columbia University
Bachelor of Laws with Honors (LLB (Hons)) (Senior Scholar), University of Auckland
Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Senior Scholar), University of Auckland
BAR ADMISSIONS
Solicitor, England and Wales, 2023
Called to the Bar of England and Wales, 2023
Admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand, 2014
AFFILIATIONS
Member – The Collective Redress Lawyers Association (CORLA)
Member – The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)
Member – Competition Law Association (CLA)
Member – Society for English and American Lawyers (SEAL)
PUBLICATIONS
- “Speak for Yourself (the United States Deposition as a flexible and potent civil procedure tool for New Zealand)” [2020] New Zealand Law Journal 208
- “Arbitrator bias and associated issues” [2015] New Zealand Law Journal 369
- “Mr Big” under scrutiny: the right to silence and elicited undercover confession evidence in New Zealand” [2015] New Zealand Law Journal 38.
- “Principles without Principals? Reconsidering Unauthorised Agency on the Boundary of Contract: Implied Warranty of Authority and Ratification” (2014) 20 Auckland University Law Review 20