Background
Roisman, Anthony Z. was born in Ma 1938 in Oklahoma City, Oklaho.
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Anthony Z. Roisman
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Dartmouth College (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1960). Harvard University (Bachelor of Laws, 1963).
Career
Worked at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, Professional limited liability company (Washington, District of Columbia) specializing in General Civil Trial and Appellate Practice in State and Federal Courts. Antitrust and Unfair Trade Practices, Securities, Consumer Product Liability, Franchising, Mass Torts, and Toxic Tort Litigation. Complex, Multi-District and Class Action Litigation.
Admitted to the bar, 1965, New New York
1967, District of Columbia. 1968, United States. Supreme Court.
Luce Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Summer, 1982. Partner, Roisman, Kessler & Cashdan (formerly Berlin, Roisman & Kessler), Washington, District of Columbia, 1969-1977.
Member: Alumni Advisory Board, Public Affairs Center, Dartmouth College, 1974.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advisory Panel on Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Nominations, 1980. Committee on Nuclear Safety Research, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences/Engineering, 1985-1986. Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, District of Columbia, 1977-1979.
Chief, Hazardous Waste Section, Land and Natural Resources Division, United States.
Department of Justice, 1979-1981. Special Litigator for Hazardous Waste, Land and Natural Resources Division, United States.
Department of Justice, 1981-1982. Executive Director, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, District of Columbia, 1982-1987.
Member: The District of Columbia Bar.
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Environmental Law Committee, 1990). The firm is one of a handful of firms in the United States litigating plaintiffs" class actions as a regular part of its business, with a specialty in antitrust, securities, environmental toxic tort, consumer, and product liability cases. The firm has been involved in many of the major complex class action cases litigated in the United States and has a national reputation in this area.
Members of the firm have concluded numerous securities and antitrust class actions in which they have played a principal or lead role or served on the Executive Committee of plaintiffs" counsel
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Member: Alumni Advisory Board, Public Affairs Center, Dartmouth College, 1974. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Advisory Panel on Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Nominations, 1980. Committee on Nuclear Safety Research, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Resources, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences/Engineering, 1985-1986.
Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, District of Columbia, 1977-1979.
Chief, Hazardous Waste Section, Land and Natural Resources Division, United States. Department of Justice, 1979-1981.
Special Litigator for Hazardous Waste, Land and Natural Resources Division, United States. Department of Justice, 1981-1982.
Executive Director, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, District of Columbia, 1982-1987.
Member: The District of Columbia Bar. The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member, Environmental Law Committee, 1990).
