EDITORIAL REVIEW
A true visionary, legal scholar and political
activist, Schwartz has led Corporate America’s
tort reform effort.
—2008 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America
This highly influential advocate is noted as much for authorship of the Comparative Negligence treatise as for his role as General Counsel to the American Tort Reform Association
— Lawdragon,
January 2008
This highly influential advocate is noted as much for authorship of the Comparative Negligence treatise as for his role as General Counsel to the American Tort Reform Association
He led his firm’s elite public policy
group in getting the Class Action Fairness Act passed.
— Lawdragon,
October 2006
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Victor E. Schwartz chairs the Public Policy Group at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. He co-authors the nation’s leading torts
casebook, Prosser, Wade & Schwartz’s Torts (11th ed. 2005), and authors Comparative Negligence, the principal
text on the subject. Victor’s amicus briefs and articles on key public policy issues have been cited in decisions by the
Supreme Court of the United States and state supreme courts.
Victor is former dean of the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and currently serves on its Board of Visitors. During
his academic career, Victor litigated cases on behalf of plaintiffs, and secured the first punitive damages award in the
Midwest against a manufacturer of a defective product.
Today, Victor serves as General Counsel to the American Tort Reform Association, and co-chairs the American Legislative
Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Civil Justice Task Force. He was a recipient of The Jeffersonian Award, ALEC’s highest honor
bestowed on persons in the private sector.
Victor is the only defense attorney in the United States to serve on the Advisory Committees of all three of the American
Law Institute’s Restatement (Third) of Torts projects: Products Liability, Apportionment of Liability, and General
Principles.
Victor chaired the Federal Government’s Inter-Agency Task Force on Product Liability and the Department of Commerce’s
Inter-Agency Task Force on Insurance and Accident Compensation. He was awarded the Secretary of Commerce’s Medal of
Excellence for his service.
He has been named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in the U.S. and by
Washingtonian magazine as one of the top lawyers and lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
Education
1965 J.D., Columbia Law School
1962 A.B., Boston University
