Andrew M. Schatz

Andrew M. Schatz
Direct Line: (860) 493-6288
Email: aschatz@snilaw.com

Andrew M. Schatz has concentrated his practice on class action litigation for over 30 years, representing both plaintiffs and defendants. Since founding the firm in 1995, he has been, and remains, actively involved in all areas of the firm’s practice.

Mr. Schatz graduated Cornell University with honors in 1972 and Harvard Law School with honors in 1976, where he was the Articles Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. In 1976, Mr. Schatz joined the Chicago law firm of Sachnoff, Schrager, Jones & Weaver, where he was a partner from 1979 until 1987 and managed the firm’s office in Hartford, Connecticut in 1986-87. Mr. Schatz played a key role in that firm’s representation of plaintiffs in numerous securities, antitrust and consumer class actions, including national antitrust class actions against the paper industry, major national securities class actions against Equity Funding Corp. of America and the Washington Public Power Supply System, and consumer class actions against Allstate and other insurance companies, as well as serving as counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in many non-class cases. 

In 1987, Mr. Schatz joined Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin in Hartford, Connecticut, where he headed that firm's corporate and securities litigation practice. While at that firm, Mr. Schatz represented publicly-held corporations and their directors and officers as defendants in many securities class actions and derivative actions, including numerous corporations in the retail, banking and brokerage industries.

Mr. Schatz has also been active in pro bono cases in both Chicago and Hartford, including cases seeking to protect rights of those with physical and mental disabilities and other forms of  discrimination. He has served as co-counsel in numerous cases with the American Civil Liberties Union and Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights as well as other organizations.

Mr. Schatz is a director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut, the Greater Hartford Legal Aid Foundation and numerous community organizations, a member of the Securities Advisory Council to the Connecticut Department of Banking, a member of the Connecticut and American Bar Associations and a speaker on panels relating to securities fraud and the duties of directors of publicly held corporations.

Effective April 30, 2008, Mr. Schatz has retired as a partner in Schatz Nobel Izard and has transitioned to an Of Counsel role in the firm.