Bradley J. Schram | Partner/Shareholder

Bradley Schram established the law firm of Hertz and Schram in 1979 and has served as its President since its incorporation in 1981. He has built his reputation as a skilled litigator and astute commercial and real estate transactional attorney by adding value beyond those traditional skills provided by many qualified attorneys.

Mr. Schram's extensive courtroom and boardroom experience, coupled with an intuitive sense of how to achieve the best overall result for the client, have helped create a loyal clientele ranging from local developers and business entrepreneurs to international Fortune 100 companies.   Mr. Schram serves as "general counsel" to several of these clients.

He also has extensive insight into the business and practical aspects of real estate and business transactions by his involvement in the conceptualization, development, syndication and management of numerous projects involving office buildings, shopping centers, warehouses, apartments, mobile home parks and residential subdivisions. As local and regional counsel for several securities firms and developers, Mr. Schram has developed an expertise in the analysis and structuring of private placement transactions that meld the venture capital needs of developers and the protection of the individual and institutional investors.  He is frequently requested to serve as a mediator or expert witness on complex securities, business and real estate disputes.

Mr. Schram attended the University of Michigan Honors College, where he received a political science degree with highest distinction. He then spent six months in South America as a photojournalist for several US newspapers before attending Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. There, he received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1976 and served as Senior Managing Editor for the Georgetown Law Weekly.

For the past five years, Mr. Schram has co-authored the Annual Survey of Broker-Dealer Litigation, a project sponsored by the American Bar Association's Broker-Dealer Subcommittee. He is admitted to practice law in Michigan, Florida and Washington, D.C. Some of Mr. Schram's most noteworthy decisions include:

REPORTED DECISIONS: Bennett v. Shearson/American Express, 168 Mich. App. 80; 423 N.W.2d 911(1987); Lund v. Shearson/American Express, 852 F.2d 182 (6th Cir.1988); Harner v. Prudential Securities, 785 F.Supp. 626 (E.D. Mich.1992), Aff'd 35 F.3d. 565 (6th Cir. 1994);Hartmann v. Shearson LehmanBrothers, 194 Mich. App. 25; 486 N.W.2d 53 (1992);Christy v. Kelly v. Prudential, 198 Mich. App. 215; 497 N.W.2d 194 (1993); SheldonCompany Profit Sharing Plan and Trust v. Oppenheimer & Co., 858 F.Supp 663 (W.D. Mich. 1994); City of Detroit Pension Fund v. Prudential Securities, 91 F.3d 26 (6th Cir. 1996), cert. denied 117 S.Ct 1252, 137 L.Ed.2d 233 (1997); Ohio Company v Nemecek, 96 F.3d 234 (6th Cir. 1996); Ramsey v. AMFAC, Inc.,  960 F.Supp. 1424 (N.D. Cal. 1997); McElwaine v. U.S. West, Inc., 176 F.3d 1167 (9th Cir. 1999); Lyons v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. Salaried Employees Retirement Plan, 221 F.3d 1235 (11th Cir. 2000); Crosby v. Bowater Inc. Retirement Plan for Salaried Employees of Great Northern Paper, Inc., 262 F.Supp.2d 804 (W.D. Mich. 2003); Humphrey v. United Way of Texas Gulf Coast, 590 F.Supp.2d 837 (S.D. Tex. 2008).