Edward M. Swartz
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Email: attorney@swartzlaw.com

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.

Admitted: 1958, Massachusetts; 1971, District of Columbia

Law School: Boston University, J.D., magna cum laude, 1958; University of Michigan, LL.M., 1960

College: University of Massachusetts, B.A., with honors, 1955

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.

Biography: 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; <i>Trial Handbook for Massachusetts Lawyers,</i></b> 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-.

Born: Winthrop, Massachusetts, January 17, 1934

ISLN: 903293196