Victor Schwartz Biography

Integrating litigation, government affairs, and public relations is the group's main goal. Victor advises product manufacturers on liability concerns and has a busy appellate practice. Prior to starting his full-time legal career, Victor Schwartz worked as a professor and dean at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He presently serves on the Board of Visitors for the College. He won the Department of Commerce Secretary's Award for Professional Excellence for his work with the government while serving as the Chairman of the Federal Inter-Agency Task Force on Product Liability. He contributed to the creation of the Risk Retention Act and the Uniform Product Liability Act. Victor Schwartz has been a co-author of Prosser, Wade and Schwartz's Torts, the most utilized torts casebook in the United States, for more than 20 years (10th ed. 2000). He co-wrote Guide to Multistate Litigation and also wrote Comparative Negligence. Victor participated on the Advisory Committee for the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products Liability and Apportionment of Liability Projects and is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI). He now sits on the Restatement (Third) of Torts: General Principles Advisory Committee. In 1997, the ALI inducted him as a Life Member. He works at the American Tort Reform Association as General Counsel. He serves as co-chair of the American Legislative Exchange Council's Civil Justice Task Force and as head of the Product Liability Committee's Legislative Subcommittee of the American Bar Association. Victor Schwartz is regularly mentioned in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He has also made appearances on Oprah, 60 Minutes, and network news shows. Victor Schwartz is sought after by both print and broadcast media. He and his fellow members of the Public Policy Group were given the Phillip Burton Award for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. Victor was recognized as one of the country's Legal Reform Champions in 2003 by Chief Legal Executive magazine. The American Legislative Exchange Council, a coalition of more than 3,000 state lawmakers, also named Victor the Private Sector Person of 2003. Victor Schwartz has been honored by the National Law Journal twice as one of the 100 most prominent lawyers in the country due to his accomplishments, and by the Washingtonian magazine twice as one of the top 50 lobbyists in the nation's capital.

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