Lionel M. Schooler has developed significant expertise in labor and employment law as well as business litigation (with an emphasis in federal practice). He has also served as an arbitrator in business, healthcare, construction, and employment disputes.

Mr. Schooler has practiced law for almost thirty-five years, following his completion of a clerkship with the Honorable United States District Judge Carl O. Bue, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. His practice primarily focuses on management-side labor and employment law, which includes claims under all employment discrimination laws, wage and hour issues (such as exemptions and overtime) under the Fair Labor Standards Act, investigations by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Texas Workforce Commission and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, litigation involving protection or exploitation of trade secrets and confidential information and intellectual property, and enforcing or challenging covenants not to compete, federal arbitrations and litigation, bankruptcy and complex commercial litigation, construction litigation and arbitration, False Claims Act litigation, banking litigation, and real estate and title insurance litigation. Mr. Schooler's practice has also included tax litigation, antitrust litigation, securities litigation, general litigation, and appellate law.

Mr. Schooler has extensive experience in arbitration as an arbitrator and as an advocate. He has tried over 50 jury and non-jury cases, and he has argued numerous appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and in the Texas Courts of Appeals.

Mr. Schooler is a past member of the Board of Trustees for The Alley Theater, the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Center of Houston, the Board of Trustees of the American Jewish Committee, and the Executive Board of the Community Relations Committee.

B.A., history, with departmental honors, University of Pennsylvania, 1968

J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1974

• Member, National Order of Barristers
• Member, Texas Law Review;
• Winner, 1974 Intramural Mock Trial Competition;
• Finalist, 1974 Hildebrand Moot Court Competition (selected as Best Advocate)