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E. Randol Schoenberg (born 1966) is a U.S. attorney and genealogist, based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in legal cases related to the recovery of looted or stolen artworks, particularly those by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust.〔Paul Gallagher, ("'Nazi loot' is in major National Gallery show" ), ''The Independent'', October 20, 2013.〕〔Patt Morrison, ("Patt Morrison Asks: E. Randol Schoenberg -- for the gold Klimt" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', March 17, 2012.〕〔("An Interview with E. Randol Schoenberg" ), ''Essential Vermeer'', March 20, 2011.〕〔Anne-Marie O'Connor, ("Attorney's Perseverance Yields a Legal Masterpiece" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', January 23, 2006.〕 Schoenberg is widely known as one of the central figures of the 2015 film, ''Woman in Gold'', which depicted the case of Maria Altmann against the government of Austria. Schoenberg is portrayed by Ryan Reynolds. ==Legal career== Schoenberg 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",〔(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 contingent fee basis and reportedly received 40% of the proceeds from the Klimt paintings,〔(Klimt-astic Deal - Forbes.com )〕 amounting to a legal fee of over $120 million. He used a portion of his fee to fund a new building and expansion of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.〔〔David D'Arcy, (" Klimt lawyer’s fee funds museum: New space for Los Angeles Holocaust centre opens in October" ), ''The Art Newspaper'', September 2010.〕 Schoenberg is featured in the documentary films ''(Stealing Klimt )''〔 *("Stealing Klimt" ) 〕 and ''(Adele's Wish )'',〔 *("Adele's Wish" )〕 which deal with the events surrounding Altmann's case against the government of Austria, and depicted by Ryan Reynolds in ''Woman in Gold'', a 2015 feature film dramatizing the case. He acted for the defendants-appellants in the case of ''Yahoo! Inc. v. La Ligue Contre Le Racisme et l'Antisemitisme (LICRA)'' 433 F.3d 1199 (9th Ci. 2006), in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.〔(YAHOO! INC., a Delaware corporation, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. LA LIGUE CONTRE LE RACISME ET L'ANTISEMITISME, a French association; L'Union Des Etudiants Juifs De France, a French association, Defendants-Appellants. )〕 As of April 2015, Schoenberg is of counsel at the small law firm of Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP, and a lecturer at the University of Southern California. He previously was employed as an associate of the law firms Fried Frank and Katten Muchin. He was awarded the'' California Lawyer'' "Attorney of the Year" award in 2007 for outstanding achievement in litigation practice. Schoenberg teaches a course on Art and Cultural Property Law at the USC Gould School of Law. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「E. Randol Schoenberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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