Edward S. Schwartz
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Edward Schwartz is a partner at Gerson & Schwartz and has practised in Miami since 1982. The Florida Bar lists him in good standing, eligible to practise, with no discipline in the ten-year window it publishes.
The bar record
What "None" covers here. The Florida Bar publishes a 10-year discipline history. Schwartz was admitted in 1982. "None" therefore means nothing in the last decade — roughly the most recent quarter of a 43-year career. It is not a statement about the whole of it. The Bar says older history can be obtained by contacting it directly; we haven't. This is the same limit that applies to every Florida listing we publish, and it's why we print the window alongside the result.
Both partners, checked
We ran the same check on both named partners at this firm. The results differ, and you should see them together rather than one at a time.
Both are currently in good standing and eligible to practise. Gerson's profile sets out the 2018 order in full, including where a 30-day suspension sat among the sanctions issued alongside it.
One thing worth knowing when you weigh that. The firm's own site states that it has deliberately stayed small and that each client case is worked on by all of the firm's partners.Reported If that's accurate, choosing between partners isn't quite how this firm works. We're pointing it out because it's the firm's own description of its practice, not because it implies anything either way.
Background
Schwartz has practised law in Miami since 1982.Verified He graduated magna cum laude from Williams College and cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law, where he was Articles and Comments Editor of the Law Review.Reported
He is a member of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers and its Appellate Practice Section, and has served on the Academy's Amicus Committee preparing amicus briefs on its behalf, and on the Amicus Committee of the National Crime Victims Bar Association.Reported
Published work
Unusually for a listing on this site, some of his work is independently locatable rather than self-described:Reported
- "Issues and Experts in Negligent Security Cases" — chapter 5, 2001 Expert Witness Update: New Developments in Personal Injury and Litigation, Aspen Law and Business, co-authored with Philip Gerson
- "When Negligence Leads to Crime" — cover feature, TRIAL (Journal of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, now the American Association for Justice), December 2002, co-authored with Philip Gerson
- "An Unconstitutional Deprivation of Access to the Courts: An Analysis of Section 19 of Chapter 99-225, Florida Statutes" — St. Thomas Law Review, 1999
Practice
His practice is described as plaintiffs' personal injury and wrongful death, including medical malpractice, defective product cases, litigation on behalf of crime victims, and appellate work.Reported
The firm was founded by Philip Gerson in 1970 and handles car, truck, motorcycle, cruise ship and maritime, premises liability, medical malpractice, crime victim and wrongful death claims from offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.Reported Cases are taken on a contingent fee with a free initial consultation, and the firm operates in Spanish.Reported
Rideshare is not a stated speciality. The firm's practice pages don't list it. We selected Gerson & Schwartz for Miami after our first pass on that market returned mainly lead-generation listings and a referral broker trading under a law firm name — this is a real, long-established practice, but if the driver-status question matters to your claim, ask how often they handle it.
Reviews
4.8 average across 277 Google reviews for the firm.Verified Reviews name individual lawyers inconsistently, so we don't attribute the firm's rating to any one of them. We confirm the record exists and is consistent with the firm's location and practice; we don't audit individual reviews and nobody outside Google can.
What we haven't checked
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