Boston Lawyer: Corporate, Government Hearings, Employment

Hilary S. Schultz is a graduate of Brandeis University (1971, B.A. and M.A. in Politics) and Yale Law School (1974, J.D.), where she was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal.  Ms. Schultz’s practice focuses on corporate and financial transactions, administrative proceedings, complex civil litigation, health care, employment and divorce law.

Ms. Schultz joined Engel & Schultz in January 2012 after conducting a solo law practice for nearly fifteen years.  In her law practice, Ms. Schultz represented individuals and small businesses in civil litigation, administrative, and divorce proceedings, and in real estate transactions.  Ms. Schultz also worked as the in-house counsel for a start-up entity, a special counsel in the health care department of one of Boston’s major law firms, and on a project basis for other attorneys in employment, complex civil litigation and real estate matters.

Earlier in her law career, Ms. Schultz worked as an administrative law judge for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in-house at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and a supervisory attorney at RECOLL Management Corporation, the FDIC contractor that worked out loans made by the Bank of New England after the bank failed in 1990.

In-House Counsel

Ms. Schultz represented a start-up company for approximately four years.  During that time, she advised management on a wide variety of issues including internal employment matters, governance and operations; negotiated contracts with state and municipal entities, sanctioning bodies, and suppliers and vendors; and represented the company in financial transactions.  Ms. Schultz also worked closely with outside counsel to obtain federal and state trade mark protection for the company’s intellectual property.

Corporate Finance

At RECOLL Management Corporation, Ms. Schultz managed six other attorneys, advised the senior approval committees, and carried her own workout case load.  Ms. Schultz’s loan workout portfolio, representing tens of millions of dollars owed by corporations and real estate partnerships, involved both debt restructuring and complex civil litigation; Ms. Schultz also regularly represented the FDIC’s creditor interests (as Receiver for New BNE) in borrowers’ bankruptcy proceedings.

Administrative Law

Ms. Schultz has represented hospitals before the Provider Reimbursement Review Board, the administrative body within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid that adjudicates requests for additional Medicare reimbursement.  She represented the physician committee at a major New England hospital in connection with physician discipline proceedings.  Ms. Schultz represented a developer seeking permits for a gas station in multiple administrative hearings before the Martha’s Vineyard Commission.

When Ms. Schultz was an administrative law judge for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, she presided over hundreds of evidentiary proceedings and prepared decisions for multiple state agencies on a wide variety of disputes.  Ms. Schultz’s work for the Rate Setting Commission primarily involved hospitals’ requests for adjustments to their reimbursement rates.  Ms. Schultz’s work on behalf of the Contributory Retirement Appeal Board involved adjudicating whether municipal employees were entitled to retirement benefits.  Her work on behalf of the Civil Service Commission involved municipal employee discipline, while her work on behalf of several Boards of Registration involved practitioner discipline.  Ms. Schultz also adjudicated compensation disputes between construction contractors and the Commonwealth for the Division of Capital Planning.

Employment

Ms. Schultz has dealt with employment disputes from all different perspectives.  She has advised companies regarding employment policies, represented companies and employees in employment disputes, and acted as the judge resolving employment disputes.  It is anticipated that she will take an active role in the many employment cases handled by Engel & Schultz.

Other

During more than thirty-year career, Ms. Schultz has practiced in the area of complex civil litigation at a small Boston firm, one of Boston’s mega-firms and at two litigation boutiques.  Her cases involved a wide variety of legal claims, including commercial disputes, employment matters, insurance coverage, wrongful death, and copyright infringement.  She has worked on non-jury and jury trials, engaged in motion practice, and argued appeals in the state and federal courts of Massachusetts. Ms. Schultz has also appeared in courts in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, and Mississippi, and conducted or defended hundreds of depositions.

Ms. Schultz has also devoted a substantial amount of time during her years as a practicing attorney to ‘pro bono’ work.  She regularly advises Harvard Law students in trial and appellate advocacy techniques.  She served as an instructor in Brandeis University’s Politics Department.  She has been serving as a Pre-Trial Conferencer in the Boston Municipal Court for more than a dozen years.

Ms.Schultz may be contacted directly by phone or via email at : hschultz@engelschultz.com.