Cahn Award, presented by the National Association of Counsel for Children for career achievement and the Haverford Award for service to humanity. From 2003-2012, he chaired the Board of the Philadelphia Youth Network.īob has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Mark Hardin Award from the ABA Center on Children and the Law Andrew Hamilton Award, presented by the Philadelphia Bar Association "for exemplary service in the public interest" the Reginald Heber Smith Award, presented by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association the Livingston Hall Award, presented by the American Bar Association and the Stephen M. Bob in 2005 became chair of the Advisory Committee to the Children's Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. From 1991 to 2012, he was a gubernatorial appointee to the Commission's Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee, which is the State Advisory Group that distributes federal funds in Pennsylvania and advises the governor regarding juvenile justice policy. From 1996-99 he was a gubernatorial appointee to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. As part of the Network, he co-edited Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice (University of Chicago Press: 2000). He co-edited the 2020 RWI volume, The Role of Social Work in Juvenile Justice: International Perspectives.įrom 1996-2006, Bob was a member of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice. Bob visited China again in 2018, speaking at a symposium sponsored by the Raoul Wallenberg Institute. In 1993 he visited South Africa to help develop a legal system for children, and was invited to China in 2010 to speak to judges and lawyers about sentencing of youth. In 1993 he also co-authored the American Bar Association's report, America's Children at Risk and in 1995 he helped author a follow-up report on youth's access to quality lawyers, A Call for Justice. From 1992-08, he was chair of the Juvenile Justice Committee of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section.
Bob chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Youth at Risk from 2011-2013. In his career at Juvenile Law Center, Bob represented dependent and delinquent children in Pennsylvania juvenile and appellate courts brought class-action litigation over institutional conditions and probation functions testified in Congress before House and Senate committees and spoke in over 30 states on matters related to children and the law.īob's career was not been limited to Pennsylvania, but included fighting nationally and internationally for youth’s rights. Schwartz’ practice including by example, organizations such as trade associations, medical organizations, and quasi-government organizations among others.Robert Schwartz co-founded Juvenile Law Center in 1975 and was its executive director from 1982 to 2015. Representing non-profit organizations has also become a staple of Mr. Schwartz to the Committee on Hospital-Physician Alignment and the Health Information Strategy Committee. The Michigan Health & Hospital Association (MHA) appointed Mr. He is a Board Member of Oakland County Michigan's Medical Main Street and an American Health Lawyer Association trained Arbitrator, Mediator and Hearing Officer. Schwartz is a member of the Health Law Sections of the American Bar Association and State Bar of Michigan, the American Health Lawyers Association, the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association, as well as the State Bar of Michigan. He also works on various international matters with a particular emphasis on Mexico, Latin America, and Canada.
He has extensive experience in business planning, mergers and acquisitions and in assisting healthcare and hospital clients in the healthcare regulatory areas including reimbursement, fraud and abuse, hospital-physician relations, pharmacies in both the community and long-term care setting, among others. Schwartz's practice includes corporate and healthcare activities. He is admitted to practice in Michigan and New York. He graduated from Wayne State University Law School (J.D., 1972) and Wayne State University (B.A., 1969).
Schwartz is a Shareholder practicing in Butzel's Troy office.
0 kommentar(er)
