LLOYD R. SCHWED

Partner

lschwed@schwedmcginley.com
Office (561) 694-0070
Facsimile (561) 694-0057

11376 North Jog Road
Suite 101
Palm Beach Gardens, FL. 33418

Position:

• Shareholder

Practice Areas:

• Business Litigation
• Professional Liability
• Insurance Law and Regulation
• Securities Litigation and Arbitration
• Construction Litigation
• Legal Malpractice

Admissions:

• Florida Bar, 1985
• United States District Courts, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida, 1987
• United States Court of Appeals For the Eleventh Circuit, 1989

Clerkships:

• Student Law Clerk to The Honorable James Foreman
  U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Illinois, 1983

Education:

• Washington University
  School of Law
  St. Louis, Mo.
  J.D., 1985

• Loyola University
  New Orleans, LA
  B.A.  1981

Lloyd Schwed began practicing at Fowler White in Miami in 1985 in the areas of business and commercial litigation before being promoted to Shareholder in six years.  He has 20 years of experience handling business litigation, including securities litigation and arbitration, insurance agent defense, construction litigation, life insurance and disability insurance claims defense, contracts and non-compete litigation, real estate-related litigation, and accountant malpractice defense.

Mr. Schwed has achieved the prestigious AV® Peer Review Rating by Martindale-Hubbell, signifying “very high” ethical standards, reliability and diligence and “very high to preeminent” legal ability.  He won a record $2.5 million award in Prudential Securities Inc. v. PaineWebber & Co., which then represented the largest “raiding” arbitration award in New York Stock Exchange history.

He is a past Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law and has served as a speaker at the “Securities and Investment Fraud” seminar and the “Identifying and Preventing Securities Fraud” seminar for Florida attorneys.  Mr. Schwed is the author of “How to Select a Stockbroker” and “How to Resolve a Dispute with a Stockbroker” articles for the Gannett News Service, as well as a Co-Author with the preeminent Professor Edward Imwinkelried of “A Case Study for the Drafting of Comprehensible Jury Instructions” published in the Journal of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

In 2006, Mr. Schwed was named to the prestigious BTI Client Service All-Star survey list of 134 leading attorneys who corporate counsel delineate as delivering the highest level of client service to Fortune 1000 companies.

 

Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general ethical standards.