Richard Roth­man is a New York-based lawyer. Fol­low­ing a suc­cess­ful career at one of the country’s pre­em­i­nent law firms, since 2017, he has devot­ed his pro­fes­sion­al time to rep­re­sent­ing pro bono clients, includ­ing sur­vivors of human traf­fick­ing and domes­tic vio­lence. He co-chairs the Incar­cer­at­ed Gen­der Vio­lence Sur­vivors Ini­tia­tive, as well as the board of Gra­ham Wind­ham, the nation’s old­est non-sec­tar­i­an child wel­fare agency. Dur­ing the course of his career, he has served as Pres­i­dent of the Fed­er­al Bar Foun­da­tion, Direc­tor of New York City’s Legal Aid Soci­ety, Trustee and Coun­sel to the Board of the Amer­i­can Red Cross of Greater New York, and Chair­man of Vol­un­teer Lawyers for the Arts. In 2023, he received the New York Law Jour­nal​’s Life­time Achieve­ment Award.