10/22/2025
Schwartz Law Firm is proud to announce that Brandon was nominated for and approved as a Fellow of the American College of LLC and Partnership Attorneys.
Candidates of the College must meet the following requirements:
1. The candidate must be a distinguished limited liability company and partnership law practitioner, judge, or professor who has devoted, and demonstrated a willingness to further devote, time to organized bar projects, writing or teaching involving limited liability company and partnership law.
2. The candidate must have had substantial experience in limited liability company and partnership law for a period of not less than ten (10) years. A candidate will be deemed to have had the requisite ten (10) years of substantial experience in limited liability company and partnership law or a subspecialty thereof if, as a regular part of such candidate’s practice, judgeship, or professorship during each of the ten (10) years immediately preceding the date of nomination, the candidate (a) devoted a substantial portion of the candidate’s time to performing services as limited liability company and partnership counsel, (b) participated in limited liability company and partnership law related litigation, (c) taught limited liability company and partnership law, (d) wrote articles and other publications on limited liability company and partnership law, (e) drafted national or state limited liability company and partnership entity statutes, or (f) any combination of the foregoing. The term “taught” includes teaching courses given by law schools and other academic institutions and lecturing and appearing on panels at seminars and workshops. The term “wrote” means writing intended for publication in a book, in a periodical, or in a course, seminar or workshop.
3. The candidate’s reputation should be exemplary. Thus, generally the candidate should not have had (i) a complaint filed against the candidate with any ethics committee of any bar, (ii) any professional disciplinary action against candidate, or (iii) any claim (whether or not the subject of a filing in an adjudicatory forum) for professional negligence or misfeasance or malfeasance against candidate, (iv) during the last 10 years (A) any actions concerning possible reprimand, suspension, or disbarment currently pending against the candidate; (B) any previous or current investigation involving the candidate by any court, government agency, previous or current employer, or any professional organization. The College recognizes there may be extenuating circumstances which may not disqualify the candidate, but those circumstances will need explanation and may or may not be accepted by the Board.
The objectives of the College are:
-to promote high standards of professional and ethical responsibility in the practice of limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law;
-to seek to improve limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law and practice;
-to make available to the bar, the public, and legislative, judicial and executive bodies authoritative educational materials in the field of limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law;
-to speak upon matters of interest and importance to limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law;
-to promote the continuing education of attorneys, judges, and professors on issues affecting limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law;
-to provide forums for attorneys practicing limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law to meet and exchange ideas and professional experience;
-to cooperate and consult with international, national, state and local bar organizations, government agencies, and other groups, including the Business Law Section, the Section of Taxation, and the Section of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law of the American Bar Association, the Uniform Law Commission and other similar groups that have an interest in limited liability company, partnership, and other unincorporated entity law and practice;
-to support the LLC Institute (currently organized by the LLC, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entity Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association) as it is now or hereafter organized, operated, and conducted, including providing financial support to allow for the continuation, growth, operation, and maintenance of the LLC Institute; and
-to support the efforts of the Joint Editorial Board on Uniform Unincorporated Organization Acts (the “JEB”) as it is now or hereafter organized, operated, and conducted, including providing financial support to allow for the continuation, growth, operation, and maintenance of the JEB.
More information about the College can be found here: https://www.aclpa.org/
Congratulations, Brandon!
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