James Bostwick is one of the most respected personal injury, medical and legal malpractice lawyers in the nation. As Founder of Bostwick & Associates, he’s cultivated a reputation as a top-tier specialist in catastrophic injuries including birth, brain, spinal cord and amputations. He has handled hundreds of complex negligence cases and has secured numerous record-setting verdicts and settlements for his clients in multiple jurisdictions.
Held in high regard by his peers, Bostwick has earned widespread recognition from many invitation-only organizations: Inner Circle of Advocates, limited to the top 100 plaintiff trial lawyers in the U.S., and considered the most exclusive trial lawyer organization in the world; The International Academy of Trial Lawyers (President, 2003), a group limited to the Top 500 plaintiff and defense trial lawyers in the U.S.; American Board of Trial Advocates; and the Lawdragon 500, all of which are based on peer selection.
Lawdragon Honors
| Honor | Year | Practice |
|---|---|---|
| The 2026 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2026 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| The 2025 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2025 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| The 2024 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2024 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| The 2023 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2023 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| The 2022 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2022 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| The 2021 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2021 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| Announcing the 2021 Inductees to the Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame | 2021 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| The 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2020 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
| Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers | 2019 | Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice |
Bostwick has his main offices in the San Francisco Bay Area but practices in courts throughout California, Hawaii, Colorado, Oklahoma, Nevada, Washington, Florida, Arizona, and beyond. He is one of a few lawyers in the U.S. deemed a nationally Certified Medical Malpractice Specialist by the American Board of Professional Liability.
Bostwick has spent more than 40 years specializing in complex medical and legal malpractice as well as general personal injury law, and has set the bar for litigating some of the most complex and high-stakes cases in the country. He and the firm have set and broken many records – many of them his own.
In 1978, 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 and medical malpractice, birth injury, and other personal injury claims.
