Background
Swartz, Edward M. was born on January 17, 1934 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States.
Swartz, Edward M. was born on January 17, 1934 in Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States.
University of Massachusetts (Bachelor of Arts, with honors, 1955). Boston University (Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1958). University of Michigan (Master of Laws, 1960).
Member, Scribes.
Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review, 1957-1958. Recipient, John Ordronaux Prize, Boston University, 1958. Research Fellow, Boston University Law Medicine Institute, since 1958.
West.C. Cook Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan, 1960.
Lecturer in Law, Boston University School of Law, 1961-1963. Associate Editor, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, since 1962.
Worked at Swartz & Swartz (Boston, Master of Arts) specializing in Civil and Appellate Practice, Products Liability, Railroad, Maritime, Aviation, Negligence, Worker"s Compensation, Medical Malpractice. Admitted to the bar, 1958, Massachusetts. 1971, District of Columbia.
Member, Scribes.
Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review, 1957-1958. Recipient, John Ordronaux Prize, Boston University, 1958. Recipient, Boston Aid to the Blind, Manitoba of Vision Award, 1996.
Commendation from Governor William Weld, 1995.
Research Fellow, Boston University Law Medicine Institute, 1958. West.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: "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, Volume 76 Number. 1, 1971; "The New Rules of Federal Discovery," Massachusetts Law Quarterly, Volume 55 Number.
4, 1971.
"Toys That Don"t Care," Gambit, Incorporated., 1971. "Trial Handbook for Massachusetts Lawyers," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1972. "Malpractice from the Viewpoint of the Trial Attorney," The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery, Little Brown & Company, 1972.
"Recovery for Product Related Quadriplegia and Paraplegia," Case & Comment, Volume 77 Number.
5, 1972; "Hazardous Product Litigation," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 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 & Company, Incorporated., 1982.
"Litigating Household Caustic Injuries," Case & Comment, Volume 88, Number.
2, 1983; "Leisure Time Product-Related Torts," Southern Methodist University Institute on Products Liability, Matthew Bender & Company, Incorporated., 1983. "Medical and Surgical Instruments and Devices," Products Liability, By Frumer & Friedman, Matthew Bender & Company, Incorporated., 1983.
"Are Lawyers Missing the Big Cases?" Case & Comment, Volume 89, Number. 4, 1984; "Malpractice From the Viewpoint Of the Trial Attorney," The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery, Little Brown & Company, 1984.
"Slaughter by Product, Winning the Products Liability Case," Kluwer Law Book Publishers, Incorporated., 1986.
"Toys That Kill," Random House-Vintage Press, 1986. "Swartz: Hazardous Products Litigation, 2nd Edition," Lawyers Company-operative Publishing Company, 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," Saint 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 Company-operative Publishing Company, 1990. Company-author: "Massachusetts Pleading and Practice," Matthew Bender, 1974.
"Blindness in the Toy Box," Case & Comment, Volume 79, Number.
6, 1974; "Peril at Home," Case & Comment, Volume 81, Number. 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.
"Company-authored Personal Injury Forms and Litigation Materials, Second Edition, Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995;" "Child versus
Product: Product Related Injuries To Children," National Trial Lawyers Magazine, July 1991. "Swartz Proof of Product Defect," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 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 & Company, Incorporated., 1984.
"Legal Approaches to Injury Prevention," Pediatric Clinics of North America, Volume 32, Number.
1, February, 1985; "Seat Belt Injury Litigation," Trial Magazine, November, 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, West.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.
"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, Volume 76 No, 1, 1971.
The New Rules of Federal Discovery," Massachusetts Law Quarterly, Volume 55 No. 4, 1971
Toys That Don’t Care,” Gambit, Inc., 1971. Trial Handbook for Massachusetts Lawyers," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1972.
"Malpractice from the Viewpoint of the Trial Attorney," The Unfavorable Result in Plastic Surgery, Little Brown & Company, 1972. "Recovery for Product Related Quadriplegia and Paraplegia," Case & Comment, Volume 77 No. 5, 1972
"Hazardous Product Litigation," Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 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 1984. Member, Chancellor’s Executive Committee, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, since 1988. Member, Executive Council, Young Astronauts of America, since 1988.
Friend, Massachusetts Eye & Ear Hospital, 1989.
Member, Scribes. Editor-in-Chief, Boston University Law Review, 1957-1958. Recipient, John Ordronaux Prize, Boston University, 1958. Recipient, Boston Aid to the Blind, Manitoba of Vision Award, 1996.
Commendation from Governor William Weld, 1995.
Research Fellow, Boston University Law Medicine Institute, 1958. West.C. Cook Graduate Fellow, University of Michigan, 1960.
Lecturer in Law, Boston University School of Law, 1961-1963. Associate Editor, Massachusetts Law Quarterly, 1962.