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| | Address | | 10 Marshall Street | | Boston, Massachusetts 02108 | | (Suffolk Co.) | |  | Free Initial Consultation |
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| Swartz & Swartz practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Products Liability, Railroad, Maritime, Aviation, Negligence, Class Actions, Medical Malpractice, Commercial Litigation, Employment Litigation. | Firm Profile:
Swartz & Swartz has successfully handled cases across the United States, focusing on representation of catastrophically injured individuals. Our dedicated trial attorneys aggressively seek justice for our personal injury clients, to make a difference not only in their lives, but also in the lives of future generations. At Swartz & Swartz, we have earned national recognition in the areas of product liability, child safety, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, consumer rights, toxic torts, medical malpractice, negligent security, employment litigation, business and commercial litigation.Our history of record-setting personal injury verdicts and settlements speaks for itself. We can get the results our clients need, no matter how high the stakes or how powerful the opponent. Multi-million dollar judgments in cases involving catastrophic personal injuries are possible, and we know how to get them. We represent individuals who need the legal firepower necessary to confront corporations and other wealthy defendants, but who need the personal attention that only a smaller law firm can offer.No matter how great the odds, our attorneys are here to help you. We can assess your case and estimate your chances at trial quickly, so you can make an informed decision on your plan of action. If you need the best in personal injury representation, contact one of the personal injury lawyers in our Boston office by calling (617) 742-1900, or toll-free at 1-800-545-3732. You can also contact us by filling out our online form. We will forward your information to the appropriate member of our staff. | | Firm Size: 6 | Rate Information:
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| | Edward M. Swartz (Member) born Winthrop, Massachusetts, January 17, 1934; admitted to bar, 1958, Massachusetts; 1971, District of Columbia. Education: University of Massachusetts (B.A., with honors, 1955); Boston University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1958); University of Michigan (LL.M., 1960). Member, Scribes. Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review, 1957-1958. Recipient, John Ordronaux Prize, Boston University, 1958. Recipient, Boston Aid to the Blind, Man of Vision Award, 1996; Commendation from Governor William Weld, 1995. Research Fellow, Boston University Law Medicine Institute, 1958—. W.C. Cook Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan, 1960. Lecturer in Law, Boston University School of Law, 1961-1963. Associate Editor, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, 1962—. Author: "Defective Toys - Demonstrating Manufacturers Disregard For Children's Safety," Trial Magazine, Nov. 1997; "Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gas Fires and Explosions," 14 American Jurisprudence Trials, 1968; "Malpractice Hazards of Spinal Anesthesia," 93 Legal Medicine Annual; "Product Liability: The Torch Cases," Case & Comment, Vol. 76 No. 1, 1971; "The New Rules of Federal Discovery," Massachusetts Law Quarterly, Vol. 55 No. 4, 1971; "Toys That Don't Care," Gambit, Inc., 1971; "Trial Handbook for Massachusetts Lawyers," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1972; "Malpractice from the Viewpoint of the Trial Attorney," The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery, Little Brown & Co., 1972; "Recovery for Product Related Quadriplegia and Paraplegia," Case & Comment, Vol. 77 No. 5, 1972; "Hazardous Product Litigation," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1973; "Techniques of Direct Examination: Illustrative Testimony in a Flammable Fabrics Case," Personal Injury Annuals, Matthew Bender, 1974; "Pre-trial Examination of the Technical Witness in a Product Liability Case," Personal Injury Annuals, Matthew Bender, 1977; "Cross-Examination of an Adverse Technical Expert in a Products Liability Case," Personal Injury Annuals, Matthew Bender, 1978; "Cross-Examination of Medical Witnesses," Art of Advocacy, Matthew Bender, 1981; "You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover," Trial Magazine, November, 1981; "Toys-R-Dangerous," Trial Magazine, February, 1982; "Winning Strategies in a Product Liability Case," Southern Methodist University Institute on Products Liability, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1982; "Litigating Household Caustic Injuries," Case & Comment, Volume 88, No. 2, 1983; "Leisure Time Product-Related Torts," Southern Methodist University Institute on Products Liability, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1983; "Medical and Surgical Instruments and Devices," Products Liability, By Frumer & Friedman, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1983; "Are Lawyers Missing the 'Big' Cases?" Case & Comment, Volume 89, No. 4, 1984; "Malpractice From the Viewpoint Of the Trial Attorney," The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery, Little Brown & Co., 1984; ; "Slaughter by Product, Winning the Products Liability Case," Kluwer Law Book Publishers, Inc., 1986; "Toys That Kill," Random House-Vintage Press, 1986; "Swartz: Hazardous Products Litigation, 2nd Edition," Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co., 1988; "Benefits to Society of Products Liability Litigation: Promoting Child Safety," American Trial Lawyers Association, December 1987; "Product Liability and the Captive Consumer," Case and Comment, November/December 1987; "The Assault on the Captive Consumer: Emasculating the Common Law of Torts in the Name of Reform," St. Mary's Law Journal, 1987; "Smoke Detector Litigation," Trial Magazine, November 1986; "Failure to Resuscitate a Patient Following Cardiac Arrest," The Malpractice Reporter, April 1986; "Freeing the Captive Consumer," Trial Magazine, Volume 22, Number 4, April 1986; "The Search for Product Defect," Case & Comment, Volume 92, Number 1, January-February 1986; "Proving That a Product is Defective," Trial Diplomacy Journal, January 1986; Trial Handbook for Massachusetts Lawyers, Second Edition, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1990. Co-author: "Massachusetts Pleading and Practice," Matthew Bender, 1974. "Blindness in the Toy Box," Case & Comment, Vol. 79, No. 6, 1974; "Peril at Home," Case & Comment, Vol. 81, No. 5, 1976; "Use of Discovery in Product-Related Burn Cases," 22 American Jurisprudence Trials, 1975; "Books That Bite," Butler's Northeast, May 25, 1981; "Successful Litigation of Actions Resulting from Injuries Caused by Household Caustics," 28 American Jurisprudence Trials, 1981; "Co-authored Personal Injury Forms and Litigation Materials, Second Edition, Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995;" "Child vs. Product: Product Related Injuries To Children," National Trial Lawyers Magazine, July 1991; "Swartz Proof of Product Defect," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Co., 1985; "Cross-Examination of Defendant's Expert In a Leisure Time Tort Case: Illustrative Testimony in a Swimming Pool Diving Case," Personal Injury Deskbook, Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., 1984; "Legal Approaches to Injury Prevention," Pediatric Clinics of North America, Vol. 32, No. 1, Feb., 1985; "Seat Belt Injury Litigation," Trial Magazine, Nov., 1988. Assistant Attorney General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1963-1965. President, Boston University Law Review Alumni Association, 1966-1967. Member, Attorney General's Committee on Conflict of Interest, 1970. Member, Advisory and Editorial Board, Health Devices Evaluation Program, The Emergency Care Research Institute, 1970—. Member, Board of Directors, Boston University Law School Alumni Association, 1971—. Consultant, Accident Prevention Committee, American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, 1972-1973. Vice President, 1973— and Fund-Raising Chairman, 1974-1975, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Sustaining Founder, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, 1983—. Member, Board of Experts, Lawyers Alert Newsmagazine, a Lawyers Weekly Publication, 1984. Member, Chancellor's Executive Committee, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1988—. Member, Executive Council, Young Astronauts of America, 1988—. Friend, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Hospital, 1989. State Coordinator, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, 1988-1995; Founder and President, W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm) 1985—. Member: Boston, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations; Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1974); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (National Chairman, Continuing Legal Education, 1968-1971); Massachusetts Academy of Trial Lawyers; Texas Trial Lawyers Association; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Appellate Practice; Negligence; Products Liability; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Business Litigation; Class Actions; Railroad Law; Maritime Law; Aviation Law. Email: Edward M. Swartz | | Alan L. Cantor (Member) born Chelsea, Massachusetts, October 12, 1948; admitted to bar, 1973, Massachusetts; 1978, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Colby College (A.B., 1970); Suffolk University (J.D., 1973). Member, Suffolk University Law Review, 1972-1973. Author: Note, "Advantages and Methodology of Using Sublegals in the Law," 6 Suffolk University Law Review, 1030, 1972; Case Comment, "'Loper v. Beto'," 7 Suffolk University Law Review, 174, 1972. Co-Author: "Seat Belt Injury Litigation," Trial Magazine, Nov., 1988; "Smoke Detector Litigation," Trial Magazine, Nov., 1986. Editor: Product Liability Legal Study, U.S. Department of Commerce Interagency Task Force on Product Liability, 1977; Product Liability Law of Medical Devices and Equipment, 1977. Contributing Editor, Program Materials for the First World Congress on Product Liability, 1977. Member: Massachusetts Bar Association; Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Appellate Practice; Negligence; Products Liability; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Business Litigation; Class Actions; Railroad Law; Maritime Law; Aviation Law. Email: Alan L. Cantor | | Joseph A. Swartz (Member) born Boston, Massachusetts, October 10, 1954; admitted to bar, 1980, Massachusetts and U.S. Court of Appeals, 1st Circuit. Education: Northeastern University (B.S., with honors, 1977); Suffolk University (J.D., 1980). Author: "Sean MacBride: 20th Century Lawyer," Vol. 11, No. 2, The Advocate, Spring, 1980; "Recreational & Sports Equipment," Matthew Bender, 1988. Faculty Member and Speaker to the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Trial Advocacy Program, 1987. Invited Speaker on Product Liability: Kansas Trial Lawyers Association; Michigan Trial Lawyers Association; New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association; Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers; Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; American Society of Safety Engineers. Faculty Member, Center for Continuing Professional Development, Suffolk University Law School, 1983-1986. Board Member, Continuing Legal Education Advisory Board, Suffolk University Law School, 1986—. Member: The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Sustaining Member; Committee Member, Presidential Committee on Law Student Services, 1993-1994); Massachusetts Trial Lawyers Association (Chairman, Young Lawyers Division, 1982); Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (Governor, 1996—). Fellow, Massachusetts Bar Foundation (Life Member, 1997). Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Appellate Practice; Negligence; Products Liability; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Business Litigation; Class Actions; Railroad Law; Maritime Law; Aviation Law. Email: Joseph A. Swartz | | James A. Swartz (Member) born Boston, Massachusetts, April 14, 1965; admitted to bar, 1990, Massachusetts; 1991, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. Education: Tufts University (B.A., cum laude, 1987); Georgetown University (J.D., 1990). Executive Editor, The Tax Lawyer, 1989-1990. Author: Note, "The Controversy Surrounding the Adjustment of Earnings and Profits for Accrued Tax by a Cash Method Taxpayer," 42 Tax Lawyer 821 (1989); "Supreme Court Rejects Medical Device Preemption," Massachusetts Bar Association Lawyers Journal, Nov. 1996. Co-Author: "Warning! Injury Prevention Mandates Safer Designs and Adequate Warnings," 125 Products Liability Advisory 12 (July 1999); "Protecting Our Children," 116 Products Liability Advisory, Oct. 1998. Publications: "Med Mal and Products Liability: A Dangerous Intersection", Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Journal (Winter 2007, Vol. 1, No. 4); "Medical Instruments and Devices," Medical Errors and Litigation: Investigation and Case Preparation (Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co., Inc., 2004); "Danger at Play," Trial (November, 2003); "Fighting Mandatory Arbitration," Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys Journal (Summer, 2002); "Hazardous Playthings Causing Injury to Children," Children and Injuries (Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co., Inc., 2001); "Holding the Electronic Game Industry Accountable For the Deleterious Effects Violent Video Games Can Have on Our Children," Products Liability Advisory (May, 2001); "The Common Law In The New Millennium-Protecting Our Children," Civil Trial Practice-Winning Techniques of Successful Trial Attorneys (Lawyers & Judges Publishing Co., Inc., 2000); "Keeping Our Children Safe," Facts & Findings (Nov., 1999). Board of Directors, W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm). Special Assistant District of Attorney, Plymouth County District Attorney's Office, 1991. Member: Boston Bar Association; Massachusetts Bar Association(Member, Lawyers Referral Service Committee, 1995-1998); Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys; American Bar Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Co-Chair, Toys and Recreational Products Litigation Group, 2000——; Governor, New Lawyers Division, 1994—2000); Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (Massachusetts State Coordinator, 1995—). Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Negligence; Products Liability; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Business Litigation. Email: James A. Swartz | | David P. Angueira (Member) born New York, N.Y., May 26, 1951; admitted to bar, 1982, Massachusetts. Education: City College of the City University of New York; Dominican College (B.A., 1979); Boston University (J.D., 1982). Outstanding Advocacy Award. Law Clerk, U.S. Attorney's Office, Boston, Massachusetts, 1980-1981. Prosecutor, Essex County District Attorney's Office, 1981-1982. Judicial Law Clerk to the Hon. Donald R. Grant, Massachusetts Court of Appeals, 1982-1983. Member: South Middlesex (Vice President, 19951996), Boston (Member, 1983—) and Massachusetts (Litigation Section Counsel, 1990-1992; Board of Delegates, 1993-1995; Chairman, Fee Arbitration Board, 1995—; Nominating Committee Member, 1995; Bench Bar Committee, 1996—) Bar Associations; Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys (Member, 1986—); Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, 1993—; Massachusetts Delegate, 1995-1996); Massachusetts Association Hispanic Attorneys (Co-Founder and Member, 1985—); National Board of Trial Advocacy (Civil Trial Specialist, 2001); Inns of Court, Boston Chapter, 1993—. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Appellate Practice; Negligence; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Litigation; Class Actions; Railroad Law; Maritime Law; Aviation Law. Email: David P. Angueira | | —————————— | | Jonathan D. Sweet (Associate) born Chicago, Illinois, October 14, 1970; admitted to bar, 1996, Massachusetts; 1997, Rhode Island and U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts. Education: Boston University (B.A. magna cum laude, 1992); Chicago Kent College of Law (J.D., with honors, 1996). Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert W. Lovegreen, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island, 1996-1997. Member: Massachusetts and American Bar Associations; Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute. Practice Areas: Torts. Email: Jonathan D. Sweet |
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