Dr Volker Schumacher has been a partner at Lindenau Prior & Partner since 2007.

He previously worked for a US law firm for several years and worked in-house for a France-Telecom company. He is an expert in the areas of commercial & IP/IT law.

In addition to his work as a lawyer, he has long been a member of the board of the Düsseldorf Bar Association. There he is Chair of the arbitration department.

Dr Schumacher is also a member of the advisory board of the arbitration board of the legal profession in Berlin and Chair of the arbitration tribunal of a large association of small and medium-sized businesses.

• "Data protection law and lawyers' professional law: tension, interplay and current focal points" in: Festschrift for Jürgen Taeger, IT-Recht in Wissenschaft und Praxis, 2020, 453 ff.
• "Sicher Digital: Analogue Law for a Digital Society - Does it Work?" in: "Digitalisation Needs Leadership: Why the Digital World, Mobility and the Energy Transition Create More Prosperity", editors: Elmar Niederhaus/Helmut Fuchs
• "Search engines and the media privilege under data protection law", DuD 2015, 606 ff. (co-author: Jochen Spindler)
• "Suspicious activity reporting and online archives", K&R 2014, 381 et seq.
• "Discrimination against mobile phone resellers through delayed advance service offers", CR 8/2007 (co-author: Thorsten Sörup).
• "Misuse of non-protectable templates", WRP 2006, 1072 et seq.
• "The design of IP-VPN contracts", CR 2006, 219 ff.
• "The new block exemption regulation for technology transfer agreements", GRUR 2006, 1 et seq.
• "Service Level Agreements - Focus on IT and Telecommunications Contracts", MMR 2006, 12 ff.