James A. Swartz
Member
Email: jswartz@swartzlaw.com

Practice Areas: Civil Practice; Negligence; Products Liability; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Wrongful Death; Business Litigation.

Admitted: 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

Law School: Georgetown University, J.D., 1990

College: Tufts University, B.A., cum laude, 1987

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-).

Biography: 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.

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, April 14, 1965

ISLN: 903293011