The Roth Law Firm PLLC

Founder and partner Richard A. Roth is highly regarded by his colleagues and peers for his strong litigation experience, aggressive nature and innovative “out of the box” thinking. Earning a long string of successes on both a national and international level, Mr. Roth has represented publicly held corporations and privately held businesses, CEOs and industry magnates as well as celebrities, athletes, and professional sports organizations.

Mr. Roth has litigated several hundred cases in his career, which includes dozens of jury trials in state and federal court, dozens of appeals and hundreds of cases which he has settled. He is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the Eleventh Circuit of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He has also been admitted pro hac vice in various other state and federal courts and has arbitrated securities disputes across the country.

He also practices before the various arbitration and mediation tribunals, including the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"), the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (“NASD”), New York Stock Exchange, Inc. (“NYSE”), and American Stock Exchange, Inc. (“AMEX”). He also serves as an arbitrator before the NASD. Mr. Roth regularly travels across the country representing brokerage firms in securities arbitrations and defendants in large commercial and securities actions. His clients have ranged from large broker-dealers, clearing firms, and investment and financial institutions, to start-up ventures, governmental agencies, closely held corporations and individuals.

Mr. Roth is a member of the Litigation and Entertainment Committees of the American Bar Association, a member of the Litigation and Legislation Committees of the New York State Bar Association and the New York County and a member of the Small Law Firm Committee of the New York City Bar Associations. Mr. Roth has also published articles on various aspects of litigation and has been quoted in magazines, periodicals, trade journals and daily newspapers. Certain of his results have received regional prominence and have been cited and discussed in legal journals. He also serves as an Arbitrator with the NASD and as a Judge at Princeton, Yale, Harvard and Columbia University annual High School Speech & Debate Tournament as well as those of the Catholic Forensic League (CFL), the National Forensic League (NFL) and the Mid Hudson League (MHL) in Lincoln Douglas debate.

Mr. Roth received his B.A. degree, cum laude, from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. and his J.D. degree from Hofstra University School of Law where he graduated near the top of the class. While at Hofstra Law, Mr. Roth served as Associate Editor of the Hofstra Law Review and published The Essence of the Agent Orange Litigation: The Government Contract Defense.

Mr. Roth’s experience includes working for the Office of the United States Attorney General, interning for a Judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and working for law firms both large and small. After graduating law school, Mr. Roth began his career at an internationally recognized law firm which, at the time, had over 1,000 attorneys. After that large firm experience he went to a small, boutique litigation firm that specialized in entertainment litigation and sophisticated commercial/securities litigation. Thereafter, Mr. Roth joined Gordon Hurwitz Butowsky Weitzen Shalov & Wein P.C., a one hundred person law firm whose litigation department concentrated on comprehensive securities, entertainment and commercial litigation. Upon leaving that firm in 1993, he formed Littman Krooks & Roth P.C., a small full service law firm. As head of the litigation department, Mr. Roth continued his innovative style and proceeded to develop a strong following among the financial community. He formed The Roth Law Firm in March 2003.

Jordan M. Kam joined the firm as an associate in 2003. Mr. Kam earned his B.A. at The University of Maryland in 2000 and earned his J.D. at Hofstra University School of Law in 2003. While at Hofstra, Mr. Kam was the Notes and Comments Editor for the Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal (2002-2003). Since joining the firm, Mr. Kam has tried several cases with Mr. Roth and has co-written articles on current legal issues including "To Write or Not to Write: The Arbitral Dilemma", The New York Law Journal, January 6, 2005 and "Keep It Dark", Registered Rep. Magazine, April 2005. Mr. Kam is admitted to practice before the Courts of the State of New York as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. Mr. Kam is also a member of the Trial Lawyers Section of the New York State Bar Association. Mr. Kam represents registered representatives and broker-dealers in securities-related arbitrations and enforcement proceedings, as well as clients in intellectual property, employment and general commercial litigation disputes.

Betsy K. Silverstine recently joined the firm as an associate. Ms. Silverstine graduated from the Florida State University in 2003 and from the University of Miami School of Law in 2006. During law school, she served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Jose E. Martinez of the United States District Court Southern District of Florida. Thereafter, Ms. Silverstine became an associate at Alvarez, Sambol, Winthrop & Madson, P.A., where she previously worked as a summer associate, in Orlando, Florida. Ms. Silverstine is admitted to practice in both New York and Florida. She specializes in the areas of employment litigation, securities litigation and general commercial litigation.