Mark Schwartz,a partner in the firm, was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1960. Mark grew up in Austin, Texas, practiced five years with a large firm's Dallas office and returned to Austin with his family in the mid 1990s. Mark began practicing law in the State of Texas in 1991 and holds admissions to practice in the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Western, and Eastern Districts of Texas, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Mark received a B.A. in economics from the University of Texas in 1983 and a J.D. from Southern Methodist University in 1991.
Mark served as a member of Phi Delta Phi, was a Pupil in the Patrick Higginbotham Inn of Court in 1994, and was a Barrister in the Robert W. Calvert Inn of Court from 1999 to 2001. Mark holds memberships in the Travis County and American Bar Associations, as well as the State Bar of Texas, and held memberships in the American Inns of Court and The Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism. He holds a Life Fellowship with the Texas Bar Foundation. Mark is active in the Austin community and focuses his practice in the area of civil litigation.