For 40 years, Nathan A. Schachtman has been practicing law in the area of health effects litigation. He has tried dozens of cases around the United States, including some of the leading cases involving epidemiologic and other scientific evidence in product liability cases. He has served as national coordinating, science, multidistrict, and appellate counsel in product liability, pharmaceutical, occupational disease, and environmental cases. In addition to trials and appeals, Nathan’s practice has involved counseling clients on litigation avoidance, prevention, and resolution.

Nathan has lectured and published widely on medico-legal causation, expert opinion testimony, access to underlying research data, legal uses of statistical, probabilistic, and epidemiologic evidence, and disease screenings. He has served as a lecturer-in-law at the Columbia Law School, where he taught the legal application of statistics and probability. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and a life fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Nathan was graduated from Rutgers College (1975), and Rutgers Law School (1982, magna cum laude). In law school, he was the articles editor for the Rutgers Law Journal. Before entering private practice, he clerked for the Hon. H. Emery Widener, on the U.S. Court of Appeals, for the Fourth Circuit.