Ross Schmierer, Esq.Of Counsel

Ross Schmierer, Esq.

For the past fifteen years, Ross has focused his practice on helping consumers and victims of corporate wrongdoing. During this time, Ross has served as lead counsel, co-lead counsel or on the executive committee in class actions across the country in both federal and state court. Over the past ten years alone, Ross has represented plaintiffs in more than sixty class actions in courts all across the country. These class actions have involved consumer fraud, product defects, food mislabeling, false advertising, violations of wage and hour law as well as other state and federal consumer protection laws. In addition to these types of cases, Ross has successfully litigated numerous individual and class action cases involving violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Ross has litigated TCPA cases in state and federal Courts all across the country and has successfully argued motions involving TCPA law related issues in district courts sitting in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 9th and 11th Circuits.

Every year since 2013, Ross has been selected by his peers as a New Jersey Super Lawyer. This prestigious recognition is reserved for no more than 5% of lawyers in New Jersey. During this time, Ross has also been awarded a verified Lead Counsel rating in the legal discipline of Consumer Protection, which is based on experience, reputation and ethics.

In addition, Ross has presented or lectured to attorneys on consumer and class action topics twice a year, every year since 2015 at Continuing Legal Education seminars.

In 2023, Ross was nominated and elected to serve on the Board of the Consumers League of New Jersey, which was founded in 1900. On behalf of the Consumer League and the National Association of Consumer Advocates, Ross has authored an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Ross earned his J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. While a member of the Brooklyn Law Review, he published a case comment entitled: An Attempt to Pick up the Fallen Bricks of the Wall Separating Church and State After Santa Fe v. Doe, 67 Brook. L. Rev. 1291 (2002). Since publication, his comment has been cited with approval for its analysis by several authors of subsequent law review articles, including a law professor in the University of Pennsylvania Law School’s Journal of Constitutional Law. Ross was also a member of the Moot Court Honor Society and was awarded the Best Brief Award in a National Constitutional Law competition.