Michael Schottland is a member of the Civil Litigation and Personal Injury Departments of the firm. He has been designated by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney.

Since his admission to the Bar, Mr. Schottland has been an active litigator in Civil, Chancery and Criminal Courts and has appeared before various administrative agencies. He has served as trial and appellate counsel in several pivotal and highly publicized cases, including State v. Bruce Curtis, a murder trial that was the subject of a television movie and several books and went to the Superior Court, Appellate Division with a reported opinion that clarified the law on aggravated manslaughter. Mr. Schottland has been counsel in favorable Supreme Court Decisions in Kelly v. Gwinnell, Herman v. Sunshine Chemical, Clohesy v. Food Circus, Cook v. PERS, Fink v. Thompson, and Ahn v. Carrier Foundation. These matters extended liability to host of private parties, clarified the law on punitive damages, established store owner liability for incidents in mall parking lots, clarified the law for accidental retirement pensions and in malpractice matters. All of which established precedents in various aspects of civil tort law and administrative law matters.

Mr. Schottland has written several articles that have appeared in the New Jersey law Journal on various topics from no-fault/verbal threshold law to comments regarding judicial evaluation and the publication of ethics matters. He has also had articles on various topics of public interest published in the New York Times and local area newspapers.

Mr. Schottland currently serves as attorney for the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horseman’s Association. He is also a member of the Monmouth Bar Association, and served for many years as Chairman of the Civil Practice Committee; a member emeritus of the New Jersey State Bar Association; and member of American Trial Lawyers Association, as well as the New Jersey Chapter of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Mr. Schottland currently serves on the Judicial Evaluation Committee and on the Blue Ribbon Panel of the New Jersey State Bar Association with respect to the review of the Michels Committee’s recommendations for changes to the rules of ethics.

Over his career, which has spanned more than two score years, he has achieved several substantial and notable results in the courts. He is currently active in malpractice matters, general civil litigation and cases related to racing law.