James S. Rothschild, Jr., is a member of Riker Danzig’s Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation Groups. He returned to Riker Danzig as Of Counsel after serving for 14 years as a Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey. The majority of his time on the bench was spent serving as a Civil Judge in Essex County. The Supreme Court selected him to be the Complex Civil Litigation Judge in Essex County for the last several years of his tenure.

Judge Rothschild was a member of the Supreme Court’s Civil Jury Charges Committee. He has lectured extensively on developments in civil law, both for ICLE and at the Judicial College.

In addition to commercial litigation, he has experience in numerous areas including tort cases; coverage litigation; environmental matters; medical, legal, accounting, and engineering malpractice issues; zoning and land use battles; public bidding matters; contract interpretation; construction disputes; class action; and discrimination cases.

Prior to the bench, Judge Rothschild was a partner at Riker Danzig. His practice focused on litigation and insurance coverage matters.

New Jersey

Yale Law School, J.D., 1971

University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1968

Judge Rothschild has been included in The Best Lawyers in America®, a peer review of U.S. lawyers, in the Education Law field for 2025.

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