Taft Detroit partner Jonathan H. Schwartz was featured in a recent ABA Journal article, “Stolen Treasures” (subscription required), which examines efforts to recover art and other property stolen from Jewish families during the Holocaust. The article highlights Schwartz’s work identifying and tracing looted cultural property through wartime Hungarian government records, in collaboration with Holocaust survivor and researcher Clara Garbon-Radnoti, who has spent decades translating and indexing the original documents.

The ABA Journal feature also discusses Schwartz’s role as co-founder of the Holocaust Art Recovery Initiative (HARI), a project supported by the State Bar of Michigan’s Arts, Communications, Entertainment and Sports section, and the Jewish Bar Association of Michigan. HARI focuses on transforming previously inaccessible Holocaust-era records into usable evidence for historical research, restitution efforts, and public accountability.

Schwartz is a partner in Taft’s Commercial Litigation practice and works closely with many of the firm’s practice groups. He represents clients in complex and high-profile matters involving business, commercial, employment, real estate, intellectual property, First Amendment, and arts law in Michigan, across the United States, and internationally.