Today, The Schwartz Law Firm announces with great pride and admiration that attorney Matthew Schwartz has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® for 2024 for Commercial Litigation. This is the second consecutive year that Mr. Schwartz has been selected, and The Schwartz Law Firm couldn’t be prouder of this highly valued member of our team! Over the years, Mr. Schwartz has proven his expertise and excellence time and time again, and we’re delighted that the respected organization of Best Lawyers® also recognizes Matthew Schwartz’s contributions to Corporate Law. The Best Lawyers® organization considers lawyers for their list each year from among many nominees. Each year, the competition is fierce, as so many deserving lawyers are nominated from all around the country. This is another reason why The Schwartz Law Firm is so proud of Matthew Schwartz, first for being nominated, and second for being selected.
About Attorney Matthew Schwartz
For decades, Matthew Schwartz worked hard to build his successful legal career. He currently serves as practice group leader for The Schwartz Law Firm’s securities litigation and professional negligence practice group. Attorney Matthew Schwartz has personally handled a vast range of business disputes during his career, in addition to a myriad of claims arising from consumer disputes against corporations.
Matthew Schwartz’s practice concentrates with laser-beam focus on plaintiff-side securities arbitration and litigation. His practice represents claims against a wide assortment of commercial entities, such as commodities firms, hedge funds, investment advisors, brokerage firms and similar. The practice represents both institutions who have made investments and individual investors. In addition, Mr. Schwartz offers representation for plaintiffs who have experienced financial damage at the hands of CPAs, lawyers, financial advisors, insurance agents and similar professionals.
Mr. Schwartz has successfully handled many different kinds of financial-related legal concerns, such as malpractice claims, property insurance claims, consumer claims and business claims. He excels at all of these, but in particular malpractice cases, where a plaintiff has been given inappropriate, misleading or inadequate counsel. For a practicing commercial litigation lawyer such as Matthew Schwartz, litigation excellence is essential. Mr. Schwartz has demonstrated his legal skills time and again, winning a multitude of cases for his clients. This is why—while it is an honor to have Mr. Schwartz be selected in the Commercial Litigation category by Best Lawyers®—it comes as no surprise that he has been recognized yet again by his peers and by independent review, as being one of the Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation.
About Best Lawyers®
Best Lawyers® was established in 1981. It was founded by Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh, both Harvard Law graduates, who understood how important it was for people to be able to find competent legal help without having to rely on hearsay. The founding principle behind Best Lawyers® is that the Best Lawyers® can identify who, among them, stands out as the cream of the crop, and that the Best Lawyers® should be recognized for their hard work and leadership in the legal community.
The votes for Best Lawyers in America® are curated by comprehensive peer review surveys, completed by tens of thousands top lawyers in the country. These leading lawyers quietly and discretely evaluate their legal peers and use that evaluation to complete the surveys. It’s astonishing to note that only the top 5.3% of the Best Lawyers® in the country, across 150 practice areas, are recognized by Best Lawyers®. In this latest year, over 12 million evaluations were scrutinized. And, as testament to the objective nature of the reviews, it’s interesting that many survey submissions were evaluations of lawyers by those with whom they have sat on opposing sides in court. The Best Lawyers® surveys represent the gold standard in the industry, and this year, only 71,437 lawyers were recognized out of those 12 million submissions.
Best Lawyers® uses a highly sophisticated, conscientious, objective, rational and transparent process carefully designed to elicit the most meaningful and substantive evaluations via survey, of the quality of legal services offered by a lawyer. The process to be considered by Best Lawyers® is straightforward. First, a lawyer must be nominated by a person other than themselves. Next, peer review is conducted by the elite lawyers in the area of practice of the nominee. The peer review includes feedback on the caliber of work by the candidate. The results of the peer reviews are then collected and analyzed by the voters at Best Lawyers®. For candidates who are being considered, an eligibility check is conducted. Only lawyers in good standing with their local bar associations are qualified. Finally, the happy day arrives when firms are told of the results and the freshly recognized lawyers are publicly recognized.
