Robert A. Schwartz was born and raised in Galveston, Texas in 1953. A graduate of the University of California at San Diego and South Texas College of Law, he was admitted to the State Bar of Texas in 1982. Mr. Schwartz is a trial attorney licensed to practice law in every state and federal court in the State of Texas. He is admitted to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in New Orleans, Louisiana, which court considers appeals from federal courts in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. Mr. Schwartz is also licensed to practice law in the state of Missouri. In addition to the State Bars of Texas and Missouri, Mr. Schwartz holds memberships in the American Association for Justice (formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America), the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Houston Trial Lawyers Association, and the Houston Bar Association. After serving on the Houston Trial Lawyers Association’s Board of Directors, as Secretary/Treasurer, Vice President, and president-elect for 2004-2005, Mr. Schwartz served as the Houston Trial Lawyers’ Association President in the October, 2004 – October, 2005 term. Mr. Schwartz then served as the President of the Houston Trial Lawyers’ Foundation from October, 2005 to March, 2008. Mr. Schwartz is also currently a Member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Trial Lawyers’ Association, and is an invited member of it’s Executive Committee.
Mr. Schwartz started his legal career with A.R. “Babe” Schwartz, P.C., handling general civil litigation matters and representing clients’ interests as lobbyists before the Texas Legislature. After four years, Mr. Schwartz’s interest in civil litigation prompted his move to established his own law practice in Houston, Texas. Mr. Schwartz’s general civil litigation practice consisted of handling all types of personal injury cases, ranging from premises liability, motor vehicle collisions and product liability, as well as business litigation cases, cases involving violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and of the Texas Insurance Code. Five years into his solo practice, Mr. Schwartz became “of counsel” to the long tenured Houston oil and gas law firm, Wilson & Johnson. Mr. Schwartz handled the business and oil and gas litigation matters for Wilson & Johnson’s oil and gas industry clients.
Eleven years after starting his solo practice, Mr. Schwartz joined the Williams Bailey Law Firm (now known as Williams, Kherkher, Hart & Boundas) in November, 1996. Mr. Schwartz’s first docket management assignment at the Williams Bailey Law Firm was the representation of approximately 680 plaintiffs in state court litigation involving serious personal injuries and damages resulting from toxic exposure from a toxic waste superfund site in Friendswood, Texas on top of which a residential subdivision had been built. After the successful conclusion of that litigation, Mr. Schwartz worked on the Texas Tobacco Litigation as a member of Williams Bailey’s Texas Tobacco Litigation team, participating in the discovery phase of that complex, federal court litigation, and later managing the law office in Texarkana, Texas, established for the trial of that case by the five Texas Tobacco Litigation law firms. After the Texas Tobacco Litigation concluded with a historic settlement where the tobacco industry agreed to pay the state of Texas $15 billion over 25 year and to pay approximately $2.3 billion through 2003 to Texas counties and hospital districts based on their provision of indigent health care for the treatment of tobacco related illnesses, Mr. Schwartz started the pharmaceutical docket at Williams Bailey with the Fen-Phen litigation. He expanded the pharmaceutical docket to represent seriously injured victims of other dangerous prescription and non-prescription drugs and remedies. After nearly 7 1/2 years with the Williams Bailey Law Firm, Mr. Schwartz joined Bailey & Galyen on March 1, 2004, to start and manage a mass tort and pharmaceutical department.
Mr. Schwartz has extensive, successful mass tort, pharmaceutical, state and federal consolidated and Multi-District Litigation (MDL), and trial experience. He brings with him an aggressive, ethical attitude, a proactive approach, and a strong work ethic in order to achieve our collective goal of providing the best representation possible for Bailey & Galyen’s clients.
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