Kaye Scholer

Mr. Rothman is the Coordinating Attorney for Kaye Scholer's Product Liability Litigation and Counseling group. He has argued successfully before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. He also has pioneered in the area of removal of actions from state to federal court, including, among other issues, the removal of actions naming local pharmaceutical sales representatives, pharmacies and health care providers. His experience also includes addressing various jurisdictional aspects of the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 ("CAFA"), including issues pertaining to both putative class actions and CAFA's "mass actions." Mr. Rothman has lectured and written a number of articles with respect to these and other areas. He is currently a member of the Product Liability Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he serves as Chair of the Subcommittee on New York Coordinated Proceedings.

In addition to handling a variety of litigations involving product liability claims, Mr. Rothman has represented both corporate and individual clients in connection with a wide range of litigation pending at various levels in federal and state courts, as well as arbitration. He has handled matters involving consumer class actions, commercial torts, antitrust, RICO, real estate, insurance, corporate governance issues and breach of fiduciary duty claims. He has also represented clients in connection with federal and state governmental agency investigations.

Mr. Rothman has extensive experience in the area of professional ethics, and, in particular, with issues relating to conflicts of interest. In addition to counseling clients on such matters, he has served as a member of the Professional & Judicial Ethics Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Rothman also has successfully represented clients, on a pro bono basis, in a case before the Supreme Court of the United States, involving a constitutional challenge to restrictions placed upon legal service organizations that receive federal funding.