Attorney Michael Schwartz:

Michael Schwartz is a Rhode Island native and a graduate of Classical High School. After college at American University and law school at SUNY Buffalo, he began his legal career with the firm of Lovett and Linder where he concentrated his practice in the area of Workers’ Compensation law.

In February 1981, Michael began his long association with Mark Mandell as they focused their work in the representation of litigants in complex civil cases. Among his successes is the multi million-dollar jury verdict for the plaintiff in the case of Oliviera v. Woman & Infant’s Hospital. Michael has also continued his interest in the arena of workers compensation where he currently primarily represents self-insured employers.

Michael Schwartz has lectured extensively in the field of civil litigation and worker’s compensation. He has also served as the past Chair of the Rhode Island Supreme Court Committee on Character and Fitness. He is a former officer of the Rhode Island Trial Lawyer’s Association and a long-term member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America where, among other posts, he has served as the Chair of the Ethical Conduct Committee.

Outside of the legal field, Michael currently serves as a board member of the Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association and he remains as a multi committee chair at Ledgemont Country Club, where he is a past president.

News

Attorney Schwartz will be a speaker at the Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting held in June 2010.

Attorney Schwartz will be speaking at the Twelfth Annual New England Workers' Compensation Educational Conference, that will be held in Newport RI. on October 1, 2009

March of 2009 the Rhode Island Supreme Court found in favor of Attorney Schwartz's client Cumberland Farms in the precedent setting case of Karyn Mumma vs. Cumberland Farms, Inc. >> read the opinion here

Michael Schwartz has been named as a Super Lawyer by the New England SuperLawyers Magazine

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Michael was a speaker at the Rhode Island Bar Association Annual Meeting held in June 2009. The topic was "New Developments in Workers' Compensation-The Gate-Is it Open or Shut?"