Michael D. Rothman

Michael D. Rothman founded Rothman Consulting in 1997 with the goal of creating an investigative consulting firm focused exclusively on due diligence for the financial, legal, and professional services communities. Since that time, Rothman Consulting has emerged as a preeminent boutique investigative firm. Mr. Rothman and his team have developed and implemented an "Investigative Best Practice" case management strategy that provides Rothman Consulting's clients with insightful due diligence and value-added investigations while concurrently protecting their patrons in an ever evolving legal landscape.

Prior to the formation of Rothman Consulting, Mr. Rothman helped manage his family's multi-million dollar retail lumber yard business based in Brentwood, New York. Leaving in 1990 to attend law school, Mr. Rothman would go on to pass the bar exams in Florida, New Jersey, and New York. In 1994, Mr. Rothman left the practice of law to join an investigative consulting firm in New York City, where he eventually became a Senior Managing Director. After handling intricate due diligence assignments, corporate investigations, surveillance projects, and complex risk mitigation assignments on a global basis, Mr. Rothman left to establish Rothman Consulting in the fall of 1997.    

In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Rothman volunteered to join the New York Army National Guard and was commissioned as a First Lieutenant on November 22, 2002.  After completing his basic training at Ft. Lee, Virginia, and studies at the Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia, First Lieutenant Rothman returned to New York and was assigned to the 69th Infantry Division ("Fighting 69th") as their Command Judge Advocate.

Promoted to Captain and then Major, Mr. Rothman served as a Command Judge Advocate with the 42nd Infantry Division for his entire military career. As part of Task Force Liberty, from May of 2004 through November of 2005, Captain Rothman was deployed to Kuwait and Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom III. Based in Tikrit, Iraq, Captain Rothman served as the Assistant Chief of Operational Law, where his primary duty entailed being the principal legal advisor to the Assistant Division Commander for Maneuver, Brigadier General Paul C. Genereux.

Returning home, Captain Rothman remained in the New York Army National Guard, first as a Command Judge Advocate for the 42nd ID's tactical command located on Staten Island and then as the Division’s Deputy Staff Judge Advocate based in Troy, New York. Major Rothman was honorably discharged from service in February of 2011. He is proudly a lifetime member of the Rainbow Division Veterans Foundation.

Mr. Rothman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1986. He was awarded his Juris Doctor from the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco, California in 1993 and is an admitted member of the Florida, New Jersey, and New York state bars. 

Mr. Rothman lives with his wife and three children in Connecticut, savoring every day of the American dream.