James C. Oschal

.NEPA SHRM Legal Update Seminar 2008

Attorney Profile

Attorney James C. Oschal was born in Pittston, Pennsylvania on April 24, 1961. In 1983 he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College, where he received the Charles F. Hoelzer, Jr., Memorial Scholarship in Economics. Attorney Oschal received his Juris Doctor Degree from Cornell Law School in 1986.

James C. Oschal
Rosenn Jenkins & Greenwald

Attorney Oschal practiced civil litigation with the New York City law firm of Rogers and Wells between 1986 and 1989, when he returned home to Northeastern Pennsylvania and joined Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald. He is admitted to practice in the State and Federal Courts of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, including the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuit, and the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey.

Attorney Oschal has extensive experience in Federal Court litigation and, for example, handled a landmark case in the Third Circuit which created new law with respect to retaliation claims under federal anti-discrimination statutes. He has also litigated insurance bad faith claims, represented the seriously injured and has served as an arbitrator with respect to personal injury claims.

Attorney Oschal is a member of the Federal, American, Pennsylvania and Lackawanna County Bar Associations, the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the Northeast Pennsylvania Trial Lawyer’s Association. He currently serves on the Lawyer’s Advisory Committee for the Judicial Conference for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.