Steven G. Schwartz, the founder of the firm in 2001, has retired from active law practice and now focuses his attention on expert witness assignments and as an advisor in special matters to insurance companies and private clientele. In his 44 plus years of practice, Mr. Schwartz served as trial counsel in many jury and non-jury cases throughout Florida and in numerous other state and federal courts in many regions of the country.

Mr. Schwartz received his Juris Doctorate law degree in 1978 from the Washington & Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. He is a 1975 honors graduate, Phi Beta Kappa, of Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His extensive civil litigation experience includes trials, arbitrations and appellate work in the areas of first party property and third-party liability insurance defense matters, coverage litigation, products liability, software problems, professional services cases, as well as personal injury and wrongful death claims.

After graduation from law school Mr. Schwartz began his law practice in Norfolk, Virginia and later, in the 1980's served as Insurance Claims Manager, Vice President and General Counsel of the Boat Owners Association of the United States (BOAT/U.S.) in Alexandria, Virginia, before relocating to South Florida in 1991.

Prior to founding his current firm in 2001, Mr. Schwartz was a senior partner for ten years with a Boca Raton civil litigation firm. He is a member of the bars of the Supreme Courts of Florida, Virginia and Maryland with admissions to the Federal Courts for the Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida with prior admissions to the bars of the District of Maryland, the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the appellate federal courts for the Eleventh, Fifth, Second and Fourth Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Schwartz has served as an expert witness in numerous attorney's fee claims in Florida state courts as well as federal proceedings involving fee claims in first party property disputes, commercial litigation, insurance coverage and liability claims.

Steve was born in Newark, New Jersey and attended Columbia High School in Maplewood before college.