Atty. James S. Bostwick

Atty. James S. Bostwick

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James Bostwick is one of the most respected medical malpractice and personal injury lawyers in the nation. As Founder of Bostwick & Associates, he’s cultivated a reputation as a top-tier specialist in catastrophic malpractice cases and has secured numerous record-setting verdicts and settlements.

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James Bostwick is one of the most respected medical malpractice and personal injury lawyers in the nation. As Founder of Bostwick & Associates, he’s cultivated a reputation as a top-tier specialist in catastrophic malpractice cases and has secured numerous record-setting verdicts and settlements. He is one of a few lawyers in the U.S. deemed a Certified Medical Malpractice Specialist by the American Board of Professional Liability. Bostwick has spent more than 50 years specializing in complex medical malpractice and personal injury law and has set the bar for litigating some of the most complex and high-stakes cases in the country. He has set and broken many records – many of them his own. In 1979, Bostwick obtained the largest medical malpractice verdict in U.S. history and spent the years since setting state and national records for high-value recoveries in legal malpractice, birth injury, and other personal injury claims. In early 2018, he obtained a $14M malpractice settlement just before trial over a neonatal brain injury. At the time, the result was the largest present value settlement in California history for a case that had not been tried to verdict. Bostwick has earned widespread recognition from many organizations. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invite-only organization limited to the top 100 plaintiffs’ lawyers in the U.S. (and considered the most exclusive trial lawyer organization in the world), the International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Top 500 trial lawyers in the US), American Board of Trial Advocates, and Lawdragon 500. He’s been named to Best Lawyers in America every year since its inception in 1983, rated among the Top 4 Trial Lawyers by the California Bar Journal, and featured in Newsweek, Town and Country, and Forbes as one of America’s top trial lawyers.

Education

University of California Hastings College of the Law
- 1969
University of Washington
- In Progress

Awards

Best Lawyers in America — Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Additional Areas of Practice:
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Medical Malpractice Law
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Personal Injury Litigation
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Product Liability Litigation
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Product Liability Litigation - Plaintiffs
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Professional Malpractice Law
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Special Focus:
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Automobile
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Automobile Collision
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Birth Trauma
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Brain Injury
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Catastrophic Injury
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Civil Litigation
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Hospital Malpractice
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Litigation
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Medical Devices
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Medical Malpractice
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Medical Negligence
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Personal Injury
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Product Liability
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Professional Malpractice
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Wrongful Death
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Awards:
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — (1983-present)
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Super Lawyers
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Magazine
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — (2004-present)
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Lawdragon 500
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Hall of Fame
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers National Finalist, Medical Malpractice (2019)
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — “Trial Lawyer of the Year” (2012 and 2013)
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Top 4 Trial Lawyers,
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — California Bar Journal
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Top 5 Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers in SF (
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Chronicle
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — )
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Top 60 Trial Lawyers in America (
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Forbes, Town & Country
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Consumer Attorneys of California Trial Lawyer of the Year Nominee, 2000
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — Presidential Award of Merit, Consumer Attorneys of California, 2000
- 2026
Best Lawyers in America — San Francisco Trial Lawyers Trial Lawyer of the Year Nominee, 1978
- 2026
Lawyer of the Year — Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs (San Francisco)
- 2012

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