Heidi is an associate in the firm’s Philadelphia office, where she focuses her practice on tax.
Heidi earned her LLM from Villanova Graduate Tax Program and her law degree from Villanova School of Law. While attending Villanova for law school, she served as treasurer of the Tax Law Society and was involved in the Pro Bono Society, Innocence Project, Pro Bono Legal Aid Project, and Tax Law Brochure Project. Heidi was also a legal intern to the Honorable John T. J. Kelly, Jr., a research assistant, a law clerk in Gowa Lincoln, Pa., a part of the Villanova University Federal Income Tax Clinic where she represented low-income clients in federal tax controversy cases and liaised with appeals, and she clerked for the Honorable Robert J. Shenkin. Heidi received the Federal Tax Clinic Award and Dorothy Day Award for Pro Bono Service. She earned her undergraduate degree from Syracuse University.
Prior to attending law school, Heidi was a marketing associate and assistant to the director of Random House Books.
News
August 30, 2022
Joseph Bright, Cheryl Upham, and Heidi Schwartz address how there is a lack of guidance when dealing with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and what we expect from the states moving forward in Bloomberg Tax.
August 22, 2022
210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
August 19, 2021
Best Lawyers selected 210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
August 20, 2020
Best Lawyers selected 201 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).
Publications
July 26, 2022
Pennsylvania’s 2022-2023 budget, Act of Jul. 8, 2022, implements sweeping tax reform and revises some of Pennsylvania’s most business-unfriendly tax provisions.
August 30, 2021
Heidi Schwartz discusses the New Jersey’s Cannabis Regulatory Commission's first set of rules governing the state’s adult-use cannabis program.
March 25, 2021
Michael Connolly, Amorie Hummel, William Lesser, Heidi Schwartz, Josh Stein, and James Van Orden discuss tax, maritime, and environmental issues and developments affecting the offshore wind industry.
March 17, 2021
Michael Connolly, Amorie Hummel, William Lesser, Heidi Schwartz, Josh Stein, and James Van Orden discuss New Jersey and New York's offshore wind energy policies and what the Biden administration has already done to advance offshore wind energy development in federal waters.
February 25, 2021
Heidi Schwartz discusses the three bills signed by Governor Murphy that establish New Jersey's recreation cannabis program.
January 27, 2021
Joe Bright and Heidi Schwartz provide an analysis of Autozone Development Corp.’s appeal of a property tax assessment that is pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
December 04, 2020
Heidi Schwartz and Joe Bright co-authored an article in Bloomberg Tax addressing the reporting challenges and potential tax bills confronting employers whose employees are working from home in jurisdictions outside of the employer’s workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic.
November 05, 2020
Heidi Schwartz and Lindsey Stillwell discuss the cannabis measures that passed on November 3. 2020
October 29, 2020
Heidi Schwartz discusses five states' initiatives to legalize recreational or medicinal cannabis — or both ― that could help raise millions of dollars of needed tax revenue.
September 17, 2020
Joe Bright and Heidi Schwartz co-authored an article published in Bloomberg Tax analyzing the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court’s recent decision in Synthes USA HQ, Inc. v. Pennsylvania.
August 25, 2020
James Davis and Heidi Schwartz discuss Governor Wolf's COVID-19-related relief programs that includes legalizing recreational marijuana to fund portions of the programs.
January 22, 2020
Heidi Schwartz and Germain DeMartinis discuss possible big changes coming Pennsylvania for cannabis businesses and individuals who use cannabis products.
December 02, 2019
Less than one year after hemp production was legalized by the 2018 Farm Bill, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its proposed industrial hemp regulations. These eagerly anticipated regulations establish a proposed federal domestic hemp production program, as authorized by the 2018 Farm Bill.
November 12, 2019
Heidi Schwartz and Bob Careless explain how a court found that tickets are an intangible property deductible under the state’s gaming tax in a Bloomberg Tax article.
October 15, 2019
Heidi Schwartz and Joe Bright explain the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in N.C. Dep’t of Revenue v. Kimberley Rice Kaestner 1992 Family Trust, holding that a state cannot tax income from an out-of-state trust based solely on the beneficiaries' residence in the state.
November 29, 2018
Joseph C. Bright and Heidi R. Schwartz discuss Downs Racing, LP v. Commonwealth and the court's decision that royalty fees are intangible legal rights that do not fall within the meaning of corporeal personal property or canned software.
October 11, 2018
Heidi Schwartz and Richard Silpe discuss three cases published this past summer that provide guidance to cannabis businesses and their owners in preparing their federal income tax returns. These cases turn on the application of IRC Section 280E, which precludes taxpayers from deducting any expense relating to a business that consists of trafficking in cannabis.
June 26, 2018
Heidi Schwartz discusses the updated SBA policy prohibiting lending to marijuana and hemp-related businesses — and to businesses that work with them.
June 18, 2018
On June 7, Senators Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Cory Gardner, R-Colo., introduced a bill that would permit states to pass their own marijuana laws without interference from the federal government. The bill is a bipartisan response to the steps taken by Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse Obama-era protections for cannabis businesses that are operating in compliance with state cannabis laws.