Lloyd Raymond Schwed

Lloyd Schwed has 30 years of experience handling professional liability defense and business litigation, including securities litigation and arbitration, insurance agent defense, construction litigation, life insurance and disability insurance claims defense, contracts and non-compete litigation, A&E defense, and defense of all licensed professionals, including attorney 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. Mr. Schwed also received the AV® Preeminent Rating representing the Highest Possible Rating in Both Legal Ability and Ethical Standards reflecting the confidential opinion of Members of both the Bar and the Judiciary. 

In 2017, Mr Schwed won an $18.2 Million award in Gomez v UBS Financial Services Inc. which was among the largest FINRA investor arbitration awards in the past decade.

He also 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. 

He was recognized by the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County with the 2014 Pro Bono Civil Litigation Award for his work on behalf of a local charity. 

Mr. Schwed was named by Florida Trend Magazine as one of the State's "Legal Elite" 

Mr. Schwed is the 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 for the highest level of client service to Fortune 1000 companies.