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- 1979
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James S. Bostwick represents clients in San Francisco, California across the following areas of law. Each area links to other verified attorneys with the same focus.
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About James S. Bostwick
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.
Credentials
Education
University of California Hastings College of the Law
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University of Washington
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Recognition
Awards & honors
Lawyer of the Year — Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs (San Francisco)
2012
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:
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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:
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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)
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Best Lawyers in America — “Trial Lawyer of the Year” (2012 and 2013)
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Best Lawyers in America — Top 4 Trial Lawyers,
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Best Lawyers in America — California Bar Journal
2026
Best Lawyers in America — Top 5 Medical Malpractice Trial Lawyers in SF (
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Best Lawyers in America — Chronicle
2026
Best Lawyers in America — )
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Best Lawyers in America — Top 60 Trial Lawyers in America (
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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
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Bostwick & Associates
50 California St. Suite 1500
San Francisco, California 94111
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James S. Bostwick focuses on Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury.
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James S. Bostwick primarily serves clients in San Francisco, California, with an office at 50 California St. Suite 1500.
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