Martin P. Schrama is a shareholder and expert Civil Trial Attorney as certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He is the chair of the firm’s Mass Tort and Class Action Group, as well as a member of several of the firm’s other litigation practices.
Mr. Schrama primarily specializes in prosecuting and defending complex civil litigation matters, with a concentration in mass tort, class action, and individual cases involving pharmaceutical, commercial, environmental, employment, civil rights, securities, and consumer fraud claims. He has extensive experience litigating throughout the nation on the trial and appellate levels of numerous federal and state courts, as well as various arbitration and administrative forums.
Representative examples of leadership and experience in some of the many different types of cases handled by Mr. Schrama include:
- Co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel in civil rights class action.
- Co-lead defendants’ trial counsel in power plant construction project claims.
- Member of plaintiffs’ national trial team in defective product claims.
- Member of plaintiffs’ steering committee in nationwide defective product claims.
- Co-leadplaintiffs’ trial counsel in environmental contamination claims.
- Co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel in life insurance class action.
- Co-lead defendants’ trial counsel in solar power project litigation.
- Member of plaintiffs’ bellwether committee in in defective product claims.
- Co-lead defendants’ trial counsel in sale-leaseback contract claims.
- Co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel in employment class action.
- Co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel in consumer fraud class action.
- Co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel in shareholder class action.
Mr. Schrama is also a thought leader in various areas of the law, frequently publishing and presenting to legal practitioners across the country
Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
- J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 1997
- B.A., Literature, Stockton University, 1994
- Presenter, The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Class Actions. AAJ Annual Convention. July 18, 2025.
- Co-author. Mass Torts and Class Actions in New Jersey. Environmental Law Handbook, Ninth Edition. February 2025.
- Co-Author, 2025: A Legal Odyssey—Artificial Intelligence in Products Liability Mass and Class Actions. New Jersey Law Journal. December 13, 2024.
- Presenter, Special Considerations — Class Actions. NJAJ Winter Seminar. February 22, 2024.
- Co-Author, The TDF Litigations — Deconstructing Product Liability Law. New Jersey Law Journal. December 12, 2023.
- Speaker, The Edna Mahan Sex Abuse Class Action Litigation. 2022 NJAJ Meadowlands Seminar. November 18, 2022.
- Quoted, As Bellwether Trials Resume, Mass Tort Lawsuits Soar Due to Litigation Funding. New Jersey Law Journal. July 14, 2022.
- Presenter, Valsartan. NJAJ 2019 Meadowlands Seminar. November 22, 2019.
- Co-Author, The Reports of the Death of Federal Multi-State Class Actions Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. HarrisMartin’s Mdl Mass Tort & Class Action Monitor. December 15, 2017.
- Interviewed, Xarelto Test Trials Feature New Technology, Selection Method. Bloomberg BNA Product Safety Liability Reporter. April 6, 2016.
- Co-Author, Monitoring Medical Surveillance Claims in New Jersey. New Jersey Law Journal. December 9, 2015.
- Co-author. Mass Torts and Class Actions in New Jersey. Environmental Law Handbook, Eight Edition. February 2014.
- Co-author. Plaintiffs Without a Remedy: Federal Preemption and Generic Pharmaceuticals. New Jersey Law Journal. February 3, 2014.
- Co-Author. Requirements for a Proper Privilege Log: The significance of these often overlooked rules. New Jersey Law Journal. December 12, 2011.
- A Case Study on the Importance of Forum Selection in Mass Tort Litigation. New Jersey Law Journal. May 17, 2010.
- Identifying When Your Trademark Has Been Infringed Upon. New Jersey Law Journal. October 13, 2008.
- Recent Revisions to the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Rules, New Jersey Law Journal, April 14, 2008.
- Included on the Forty Under Forty list issued by the New Jersey Law Journal, an annual look at 40 promising young professionals in New Jersey’s legal community.
- Appointed as Trustee for the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey.
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Professional Organizations
- Trial Attorneys of New Jersey – Trustee
- American Association for Justice
- New Jersey Association for Justice
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Mercer County Bar Association
*Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances*
- $30 million settlement.* Mr. Schrama was co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel successfully representing numerous individuals in consolidated state and federal environmental contamination claims.
- $50 million combined claims successfully defended.* Mr. Schrama served as counsel to a multinational corporation involved in the sale and construction of emissions cleansing technology. The client was the subject of extensive claims, arising from the retrofitting of a major East Coast coal-burning powerplant. Mr. Schrama successfully defended the combined claims emanating from multiple arbitration proceedings.
- $20 million settlement.* Mr. Schrama was co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel successfully representing numerous individuals in consolidated state civil rights claims.
- $20 million jury verdict.* Mr. Schrama was a member of the national trial team prosecuting claims involving a defective medical device on behalf of a Stark & Stark client.
- $10 million claim defended in its entirety.* Mr. Schrama served as counsel to a Fortune 500 financial corporation involved in a dispute over a detailed sale-leaseback transaction. After several days of trial in federal court, Mr. Schrama was able to have all of the claims against his client dismissed.
- $18.5 million claim defended in its entirety.* Mr. Schrama represented a party to an industrial solar power project. At the time, the project constituted the largest solar power installation of its kind in the United States and the twelfth largest in the world. Mr. Schrama was able to have all of the claims against his client dismissed.
- $4.65 million settlement.* Mr. Schrama was co-lead plaintiffs’ trial counsel successfully representing a nationwide class of individuals in life insurance claims.
*Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances*
