M. Gerald Schwartzbach

[9] In one of the first uses of the Battered Women's Syndrome Defense, Schwartzbach defended Delores Churchill against an attempted murder charge for shooting her police officer husband in a San Francisco Superior Court trial.

[10][11] In 1982 Schwartzbach obtained the acquittal of Reuben Vizcarra, a "Brown Beret" activist charged with having masterminded the assassination of the Police Chief of Union City, California.

[15][16][17] Schwartzbach was one of the plaintiffs' counsel who obtained a 1999 jury verdict of almost $300 million in the personal injury/products liability case of Romo v. Ford Motor Co.

[20][21][22][23] In a 1988 Santa Cruz County murder trial, Schwartzbach won the acquittal of Richard Bandler, the controversial co-founder of Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

[24][25][26] In 2000 Schwartzbach persuaded Marilyn Hall Patel, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, to set aside the statute of limitations of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 as it pertained to Glen "Buddy" Nickerson, a man serving a life sentence for a 1984 double murder.

The Los Angeles District Attorney's office alleged that the actor, who was famous for Our Gang and the Baretta television series, had both solicited others to kill his wife and then murdered her himself.

In deciding not to file charges, the District Attorney cited "grave inconsistencies" in the alleged victim's accusations, a lack of injuries, and the statement of a third party witness who said that "nothing happened.

[37] In the first criminal prosecution of its kind in the United States, Schwartzbach represented Hootan Roozrokh in a 2009 San Luis Obispo County case arising out of an attempted organ recovery.

The San Luis Obispo District Attorney's office investigated the case for 18 months before deciding to file charges against Roozrokh.

[39] Mr. Schwartzbach’s memoir entitled, Leaning on the Arc: A Personal History of Criminal Defense, was published by the American Bar Association.