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Andy Schwarz, Partner resume

Andy Schwarz, Managing Partner Mr. Schwarz has built a practice as a consulting expert, providing privileged advice to counsel in very large, complex litigation matters in antitrust, sports and entertainment, intellectual property, and banking and insurance. He has extensive experience in class action litigation, providing assistance to counsel for defendants and for plaintiffs. In many cases, Mr. Schwarz has played a parallel role to the testifying expert, working with counsel to assist in their development of testimony from unaffiliated experts.

Mr. Schwarz has been engaged as a testifying expert on a variety of litigation matters for issues of class certification, liability, and damages. He has testified in deposition and at trial. Among his many sports-related engagements, Mr. Schwarz was deeply involved in the economic analysis underlying the NFL's defense in L.A. Raiders v. NFL.

Mr. Schwarz has been featured on ESPN analyzing sports economic issues. He has also published on the antitrust implications of NCAA bylaws, the Twombly standard and the implications for litigation costs, the impact of the US v. Oracle trial on the doctrine of unilateral effects, and on the antitrust and intellectual property lessons to be learned from the emerging markets in virtual goods. He has a chapter forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics. He has been a litigation economist since 1997. Mr. Schwarz holds an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA as well as an A.B. in history from Stanford University and an M.A. in history from Johns Hopkins.

Mr. Schwarz is one of the original founders of OSKR and served as President/Managing Partner for the firm's first three years.