Lisa Buckser-Schulz

Lisa Buckser-Schultz is BFA’s Chief Administrative Partner. She brings a unique combination of legal, financial, and operational expertise, with deep experience in litigation, class action administration, and finance. Lisa plays a key role in overseeing and expanding the firm’s legal and financial operations.
 
Prior to joining BFA, Lisa was Director of Financial Operations at the leading legal finance company, Burford Capital, where she spent nine years working closely with the CFO in managing and growing the firm’s finance team, overseeing the firm’s audits and financial reporting process, overseeing the payment process for operating expenses and legal funding, managing the administration of offices in New York, Chicago and London, as well as playing a substantial role in Burford’s compliance, risk management and HR functions.
 
Lisa graduated from Rutgers College with a B.S. in Accounting and worked as a CPA before earning her J.D. from Fordham Law School. She began her legal career as a defense litigator before making the transition to representing plaintiffs in securities class actions at a prominent plaintiff firm.
 
Lisa next spent nine years in the class action claims administration business, where she worked at AB Data and Garden City Group as General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel, respectively, while also managing high profile class action administrations.