Practice Experience

• Emmet Schwartzman is a defense attorney with 25 years of experience in Florida and Louisiana managing complex and mass tort litigation. Areas of experience include aviation defense, insurance coverage, insurance defense, products liability, premises liability, wrongful death, catastrophic personal injury, life insurance litigation, construction, commercial litigation; negligent security and motor vehicle liability.
• Mr. Schwartzman has extensive experience in the field of aviation defense. That experience includes the defense of airlines in major air disasters, management of multidistrict litigation, passenger accidents on airport premises, ramp accidents, hull losses, turbulence and other inflight injury cases, general aviation accidents and fixed base operator liability.
• He defended American Airlines in the federal multidistrict litigation arising from the crash of an American Boeing 757 near Cali, Colombia and the crash of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727 into a residential neighborhood near New Orleans, Louisiana.
• Mr. Schwartzman defended a wrongful death claim brought against a college for the murder of a student on campus and a civil claim brought by a student for an off-campus sexual assault. He also defended general contractors against claims for death and catastrophic injuries on construction sites.

Professional and Civic Activities

• The Florida Bar
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• State Bar of Texas
• Dade County Bar- Association
• Florida Bar Aviation Law Committee
• Aviation Insurance Association
• American Bar Association
• Forum on Air and Space Law, Litigation Section
• Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
• Defense Research Institute Aerospace Law Committee

Professional Recognition

• AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Who's Who Legal: Florida 2008 (Aviation)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Florida

COURT ADMISSIONS

• Florida State Courts
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of Louisiana
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana

Education

• Tulane Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1983)
• Vanderbilt University (B.A., cum laude, 1980)