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ABOUT BRYAN J. SWERLING

Originally from South Carolina, Mr. Swerling became interested in the law at a young age. His father, Jack Swerling, is a well-respected criminal defense attorney in Columbia, South Carolina. Spending many summers working in his father's firm, Mr. Swerling found his father to be his greatest mentor and eventually discovered that he shared his father's enthusiasm and passion for the law.

While at Syracuse University, Mr. Swerling began to lay the foundation for going to law school by majoring in Political Science and History. However, when he took a writing course and achieved the highest class honor, he was persuaded to move to Los Angeles for a summer to study screenwriting at UCLA's prestigious film school. Mr. Swerling's short jaunt to Hollywood quickly turned into a career and over the next several years, his livelihood would entail working for some of the biggest names in show business including the former head of Fox Studios, John Davis, famed director Quentin Tarantino, and film producer Colleen Camp Goldwyn. After several years in Los Angeles, Mr. Swerling eventually became heavily involved in the legal aspects of the entertainment industry. Finding himself fascinated by the law, he decided to pursue his Juris Doctorate back in New York.

While in law school, Mr. Swerling focused on studying various areas of entertainment law, while developing his trial advocacy and legal writing skills. He was ranked the best trial advocacy student in his class and was also a star member of the Moot Court Honors Team. Mr. Swerling wrote and argued papers on Fair Use, Joint Works of Authorship, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. He took copyright classes with the then head of business and legal affairs for ASCAP, the worldwide performing rights organization that represents hundreds of thousands of composers, songwriters, lyricists, and music publishers, and learned book publishing law with the legendary book publisher who was responsible for Erica Jong's best selling "Fear of Flying." During his second year of law school, Mr. Swerling worked for the Queens County District Attorney's Office where he wrote complex memorandum of law and studied criminal trial advocacy skills in the courtroom on a daily basis.

After law school, Mr. Swerling went to work for one of the largest real estate and landlord/tenant law firms in the New York City area where he worked under the President of the King's County Landlord-Tenant Association. It was at this firm where Mr. Swerling worked in the United States' busiest court system, helping to procure favorable outcomes for the Firm's clients.

Mr. Swerling was later hired away by two of New York's most prominent litigators, one of whom was a former President of the New York State Trial Lawyer's Association, the other referred to by the National Law Journal as one of America's top 50 female litigators. Under their tutelage, Mr. Swerling worked on a wide variety of fascinating personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Such cases included, but were not limited to a doctor's failure to diagnose breast cancer, a landlord's liability to a sexually assaulted woman due to their building's faulty security, and a nightclub owner's liability to a patron who was assaulted by an intoxicated minor patron.

In 2005 Mr. Swerling opened his own law practice where he could work with clients on an individual basis on a variety of issues such as personal injury and medical malpractice, criminal law, commercial litigation, landlord-tenant law, and entertainment and media law.

Mr. Swerling has co-authored lecture materials for the New York State Bar Association's CLE Proving and Defending Damages at Trial: Effective Trial Techniques for Plaintiff's and Defendant's Counsel: What You Can (Cannot Say) About Damages in Opening and Closing Arguments.

Mr. Swerling is admitted to practice law in the State of New York, and two federal courts--the United States Southern District and the United States Eastern District. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Trial Lawyers Association, the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Queens County Bar Association, the Bronx County Bar Association, and the Brooklyn Bar Association. In addition to being an attorney, Mr. Swerling is a licensed Real Estate Broker and a licensed Notary. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University and a Juris Doctorate Degree from New York Law School.

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Law Office of Bryan J. Swerling
150 Broadway, 16th Floor
Suite 1600
New York, New York 10038

Phone: 212.571.5757
Fax: 646.390.0668

Email: bswerling@swerlinglaw.com

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