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Victor Schwartz Biography
Victor Schwartz is a
Partner at
Shook Hardy & Bacon
and chairs the firm’s Public Policy Group. He began his career as a law
clerk to a federal judge, then as a professor and acting dean of the
University of Cincinnati College of Law before entering government
service. At the Department of Commerce, he chaired the Federal
Inter-Agency Task Force on Product Liability and drafted the Uniform
Product Liability Act and the Risk Retention Act. Victor currently
serves as an adjunct professor and member of the Board of Visitors at
the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
Victor is a member of the American Law Institute (ALI) and served on the
Advisory Committee to the Restatement (Third) of Torts: Products
Liability, and Apportionment of Liability Projects. He continues to sit
on the Advisory Committee to the Restatement (Third) of Torts: General
Principles. He was inducted as a Life Member of the ALI in May 1997.
For over two decades, he has been co-author of the most widely used
torts casebook in the United States, Prosser, Wade and Schwartz’s Cases
and Materials On Torts (10th ed. 2000). He also is author of the leading
text, Comparative Negligence, and co-authored Guide to Multistate
Litigation. He has authored hundreds of law review articles, which have
frequently been cited by state supreme courts. He has received awards
for his scholarship from universities and leading civil justice reform
organizations. He speaks before national and international audiences
interested in the subject of civil justice reform.
Victor is General Counsel to the American Tort Reform Association. He
co-chairs the Civil Justice Reform Committee of the American Legislative
Exchange Council and chairs the American Bar Association’s Legislative
Subcommittee of the Product Liability Committee. Victor has an active
appellate practice and assists product manufacturers on injury and
accident prevention.
Victor’s views are sought by print, radio and television media. He is
frequently quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and
The New York Times. In light of his professional accomplishments, the
National Law Journal has twice named Victor one of the 100 most
influential attorneys in the United States and the Washingtonian
magazine has twice named him one of the top 50 lobbyists in the Nation’s
capital.
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