Carl B. Schwait

SENIOR PARTNER

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Biography

Carl has spent his career specializing in the litigating and trying of civil cases. Today he focuses his practice on the defense of persons and entities in a wide variety of tort cases involving personal injury and wrongful death. He is board certified by the Florida Bar and nationally board certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as an expert in civil trial law.

Carl has meshed his legal career with service to his community and bar association. He currently serves as his judicial circuit’s representative on the Board of Governors of the Florida Bar, the governing board of the bar. From 2003 to 2004, he served as the President of the local bar association. The Supreme Court of Florida has chosen Carl to its 21-member Work Group on Standards for Jury Panel Sizes. He has also been involved in local government, being twice elected as Commissioner of the City of South Miami (1984 to 1990). Carl has been appointed to the faculty of the University of Florida Levin College of Law as an adjunct professor of law where he has taught trial practice and served as the faculty advisor to its trial team.

He and his wife, Anna, have two children and reside in Gainesville.

Admissions

• Florida, 1976
  U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida

Education

• University of Miami School of Law, Coral Gables, Florida, 1976, Juris Doctorate
  Honors: Society of Wig and Robe
• University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1972, Bachelor of Arts, With Honors
  Major: Psychology

Professional Associations and Memberships

• The Florida Bar
• Board of Governors of the Florida Bar (2005 - present)
• Member Benefits Committee - Vice Chairman
• Trial Lawyers Section
• Member, Florida Supreme Court Work Study Group on Jury Panel Sizes (2004 - present)
• Florida Defense Lawyers Association
• Eighth Judicial Circuit Bar Association, 1999 - Present
• Board of Directors (2001-2005)
• Director of Programs (1999-2000)
• Past President (2003-2004)
• University of Florida Levin College of Law
• Adjunct Professor of Law (1999 - present)
• Adjunct Lecturer of Law (1992 - 1999)
• Faculty Advisor to Trial Team (1999 - 2003)
• Trial Team Coach (1997 - 1999)
• Lecturer and panelist on various topics including civil trial law, mediation and professionalism/ethics
• National Business Institute, Lecturer in Law, (1991 - 1993)
• National Board of Trial Advocacy
• National Board Certification
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• National Institute of Trial Advocacy
• Florida Defense Lawyers Association

Honors & Awards

• James C. Adkins American Inns of Court, Master