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Philip M. Gerson
✓ Bar verified · Jul 2026
Gerson & Schwartz, P.A. · Miami, FL · founding partner
Personal injury firm
Uber & Lyft
Credentials
At the Florida bar
55 yrs
Admitted 13 Nov 1970
10-yr discipline history
1
Suspension, 2018
Background
Founded the firm in 1970 — the longest career on this site. Suspended for 30 days effective 13 April 2018 over a finding on conflicts of interest involving current and former clients (Case No. SC16-1006). Currently in good standing and eligible to practise.
Florida publishes 10 years — that is 18% of his career
We have not read the underlying order and do not characterise the conduct
Verification
Florida: good standing, eligible, #127290 — The Florida Bar, 16 Jul 2026
Suspension, 11 Apr 2018, ref 201470729 — The Florida Bar
30 days — the fourth-mildest of five sanctions issued in that batch
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Edward S. Schwartz
✓ Bar verified · Jul 2026
Gerson & Schwartz, P.A. · Miami, FL · partner
Personal injury firm
Uber & Lyft
Credentials
At the Florida bar
43 yrs
Admitted 21 Sep 1982
10-yr discipline history
None
Per The Florida Bar, 16 Jul 2026
Background
Magna cum laude at Williams, cum laude and Law Review editor at Miami. Co-authored an Aspen chapter and a TRIAL cover feature with Gerson — work you can independently locate, which is rarer than it should be.
“None” covers 10 years of a 43-year career — roughly 23%
The firm states every partner works every case — including Gerson
Verification
Florida: good standing, eligible, #346721 — The Florida Bar, 16 Jul 2026
10-Year Discipline History: None — The Florida Bar
Published work independently locatable — Aspen 2001, TRIAL 2002
What the Florida register tells you — and for how long
The Florida Bar is authoritative. It publishes bar number, standing, eligibility, admission date and discipline, and it stands behind all of it. There is one catch, and on this page it is a large one.
Florida publishes a ten-year window. That is the whole of the disciplinary history you can see online. Both partners at Gerson & Schwartz have been practising far longer than ten years:
Gerson’s 30-day suspension in 2018 falls inside the decade, so it appears, and we report it. Had it happened in 2014, the same page would show nothing at all — and Schwartz’s “None” means none since 2016, not none ever.
Compare Georgia, which publishes from 1991 and therefore covers whole careers. Same badge, different amount of evidence behind it. Older Florida history exists; it requires contacting the Bar directly, and we have not.
What we haven’t checked
Not established. Any disciplinary history before 2016 for either partner — 33 of Schwartz’s 43 years and 45 of Gerson’s 55. The firm’s other lawyers. Court records for case outcomes. A bar check is a floor, not a ranking.
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