Schwartz joined McCormick in 2008 as Associate Counsel, became Associate General Counsel in 2011, and assumed his current role in December 2014. Before McCormick he was in private practice at Jones Day and at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, working in Washington, DC and Moscow. He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from North Dakota State University, an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and a J.D. from the Washington College of Law at American University.