JAMES S. LYNCH

In 2014, he was inducted into the New Jersey Law Journal’s Personal Injury Hall of Fame. In 2016, Jim had two (2) of the top 25 Verdicts in New Jersey.* In June of 2022,
Jim obtained a jury verdict for $17,533,000.00 in Manhattan for his seriously injured client, one the of largest verdicts in 2022.* In May, 2023, Jim and his brother Arthur
obtained a verdict in excess of $12,000,000 for an injured construction worker, also one of the largest verdicts in New Jersey in 2023.

Jim argued in the Supreme Court of New Jersey on behalf of the New Jersey Association for Justice, in the seminal case of Difiore v. Pezic, resulting in a big win on behalf of consumers, paving the way for defense medical exams to monitored by nurses or recorded by other means.

Jim has been asked to testify in the State House in Trenton before several Senate and Assembly committees concerning various pending legislation, including the Insurance
Fair Conduct Act, which was enacted into law, and several other pieces of legislation regarding the insurance structure in New Jersey. He testified in November 2022 before
the NJ Senate Commerce committee regarding the Peer-to-Peer Car Sharing Bill. In 2025-2026, NJAJ has appointed Jim as Chair of the Judicial Vacancy Task Force and to
the Auto, the Bad Faith and the Budget Auto and Finance Committees.

Jim is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney and is often asked to speak at seminars teaching other attorney’s issues regarding trial practice and advocacy.

Some of Jim’s notable cases have been published in The Association of Trial Lawyers Law Reporter, the New York Law Journal, the New Jersey Law Journal, the New Jersey
Jury Verdict Reporter, the New York Jury Verdict Reporter, The Journal News, The Star Ledger, the Bergen Record, the Daily Observer.

Jim Lynch is one of many respected trial attorneys in his family. In the early 1900s, his great-grandfather was an attorney and then U.S. Congressional candidate for New
Jersey (practicing in Paterson, NJ, then Washington, D.C.). His grandmother (Elizabeth T. Lynch), grandfather (Professor Arthur V. Lynch), uncle (Harry V. Lynch) and brother
(Arthur V. Lynch) were/are all attorneys. Jim is the fifth member of the Lynch family to graduate from St. John’s University School of Law, where his grandfather (Arthur V.
Lynch) taught trial practice and insurance law. His nephew Dan Lynch, niece Molly Lynch, and his daughter Abigail Lynch have continued this tradition of attending St. John’s Law School. His Uncle Harry V. Lynch was personal secretary to Admiral John McCain, Sr. (Navy) before becoming President of the Orange County Bar Association.