Schwartz Narkis & Co., Attorneys At Law

Schwartz Narkis & Co., Attorneys At Law, one of Israel’s leading firms, specializing in civil and criminal litigation and dispute management. The firm was established in 2005 by Advocates Schwartz and Narkis, renowned authorities in civil-commercial law and litigation.
The firm’s expertise stems from its litigation experience, including the integration of various new content worlds into juridical claims representing Israeli and international clients. The firm is reputed in private and civil-commercial law; class actions; corporations; personal status; criminal and white collar offences; public and media law; libel; consumer law; ; cyber and intellectual property; aviation law; planning and zoning law and urban renewal; and human rights. The synergy between the partners, with one focused on interpersonal relations and the other on intellectual development, leads to the firm’s unique strengths and successes. The firm is headquartered in Tel Aviv with an office in Jerusalem and a Chinese Desk, which provides diverse legal-business services Chinese and Israeli citizens and companies. The coop-eration also includes academic litigation knowledge exchange and management of innovation and entrepreneurship conventions and forums. The firm won, in 2012 and 2020, the tender for the insuring governmental company “Inbal”, and provides legal defense to various public officials including police and government officials. It serves as legal counsel of the Ashdod Port management since 2015 and as the Israel Railways Counsel since 2018, and among it’s prominent clients are Pen-sioners Organization of the Makefet, Egged and Nativ Fund. The firm emphasizes the values of personal, professional and confidential service, professional excellence and thoroughness, while applying an innovative approach and utilizing various tools, including media management. Advocates Schwartz and Narkis believe in constant growth and in-house litigation training and serve as academic lectures on litigation, negotiations and torts, and publish newspaper col-umns. They often serve as commentators in the written and broadcasted media, and as media publicists for legal-social issues. Starting 2020, the firm has launched a series of Podcasts for the Israeli public broadcasting corporation called “Retrial”, discussing law and history. In addition, Schwartz and Narkis are currently writing a book over the theory of litigation while reviewing constitutive cases and affairs they handled.

Practice Areas

The Civil-Commercial Department: specializes in the management of monetary and civil claims, torts, contracts, banks law, and medical malpractice, urgent interim orders proceedings, injunctions and foreclosure requests. Firm litigates business disputes in courts, mediations, arbitrations and negotiations. Firm supports clients vis-a-vis banks, financial systems, and government officials, accompanies real-estate entrepreneurs and handles construction, urban-renewal (Tama 38), while hiring various consult-ants. The department practices aviation law, representing air-crew members vis-à-vis Civil Aviation Authority and counsels aviation infrastructure planning issues and aircraft purchase agreements.
The Criminal and Disciplinary Law Department: provides legal counsel for a wide spectrum of offences, including criminal, anti-trust, tax, money-laundering, capital markets and securities, environmental protection, licensing (including planning and building), military and executives and officers offences. The firm participated in some of the most publicized affairs in Israel.
Cyber and Intellectual Property Department: handles Cyber Law, Intellectual Property and Privacy Law, handles technology, communications, new media, copyright law, trademarks and patents. Department is accompanied by consultant attorney Dr. Moti Zwilling, (P.H.D in computational biology) cyber expert at cyber regulation fields, risk assessment, intellectual-property registration, applications and technology registration and accompanying start-up ventures, Content Management, agreements distribution in digital media, Enforcement and prevention of infringements of intellectual-property and Litigating hand in hand with the criminal justice litigation department.
Media and Libel department: Marked by the Dun&bradstreet Dun’s 100 handles various media issues, represents and counsels mainly newmedia corporations. De-partment is well known for some of it’s high profile cases.
The Labor Law Department: represents in labor courts, and official disciplinary tribunals, supports and counsels employers, corporations and employees in pre-termination hearings. Firm provides preventive counsel to corporations and employers under the Sexual Harassment Prevention Law and in various administrative pro-ceedings.
Family, Civil Status and Family Capital Management Law Department: supports individuals and families in various legal proceedings, represents in separation and divorce proceedings, custody and visiting arrangements, child support, and complementary proceedings, inheritance and wills matters. Firm provides unique solutions to family-disputes related business and financial issues. Department works out of a deep sense of responsibility and a broad perspective of the parties’ well-being in the core family.
Tax Department: Department collaborates with Advocate and acountatnt, Ariel Note’a. representing in the field of commercial and economic and tax offenses: income tax, VAT and customs, money laundering laws. Attorney Note’a has unique specializations acquired over the years as part of his work at the BIG 4 accounting firm, in addition he worked as a lead investigator at The Tax Authority as part of joint investigation teams in cooperation with the elite units of the police, as well as in the criminal prosecutor’s office in the economic crimes department.
Training and Consulting: the firm cooperates with NEST – NEgotiation Strategies. Adv. Schwartz is a team member of NEST, A content advisor and professional negotiator, and lecturer. The firm provides risk management package, maps legal risks, prepares a work-plan with personal support and coaching for officers, executives workshops and ongoing support for unusual events. firm coaches and counsels corporate professionals who are about to testify in various tribunals.
In 2020, the firm launched a new service – a “bulletproof vest” legal risk management in the construction and civil engineering industries, while using expert services for managing engineering risks and harnessing IT technologies for process management.
Art & Cultural Property Law and Restitution Department: The department, led by Advocate Niv Goldberg, deals with various aspects relating to artworks and cultural property. The integrated teamwork between the office’s multifaceted practices allows the department to offer full range of legal services to governmental cultural authorities and institutions, museums, galleries, auction houses, collectors and artists. The department also specializes in the recovery of cultural property, particularly artworks, looted under the Nazi regime, and its restitution to legal owners and heirs.
Academy and Education: Advocates Schwartz and Narkis lecture in the academy while imparting and reinforcing skills. They head the Ono Academic College’s Litigation Clinic. Adv. Schwartz is a TA in criminal law in the Ono Academic College, and lectured on legal ethics in the Israeli Bar’s economic company. Currently teaches litigation in the Israeli Bar facilities And is a guest lecturer in various forums and academies. They lecture in NEST’s “Practical Negotiations” training program. Their advanced academic studies in Archeology, History and civil Aviation serve as another pillar of the constant learning which characterizes the firm.