James Cardea
VerifiedAbout James Cardea
James D. Cardea is a partner at Schochor, Staton, Goldberg and Cardea, P.A. in Baltimore, Maryland, with over 30 years of litigation and jury trial experience focusing on medical negligence and catastrophic injury. He has secured one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the country and numerous seven-figure verdicts. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers (2026) and the International Society of Barristers (2025), and has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America for Medical Malpractice since 2011 and as a Maryland Super Lawyers Top 10 attorney (2025–2026).
Notable case results
A Baltimore County jury awarded $1.75 million to the family of Albert 'Tom' Rochfort Jr., a retired science teacher who died days after an emergency physician dismissed his chest pain as a muscle strain instead of ordering the CT scan that would have caught an early aortic dissection.
A Talbot County jury awarded Bruce Clarke $970,900 after his surgeon perforated his stomach during robotic hernia repair and closed without detecting or repairing the injury, leaving Clarke to develop sepsis and chronic, disabling complications.
Baltimore County jury verdict described as one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in the country (per topverdict.com)
Numerous seven-figure verdicts featured in Baltimore Sun and Daily Record
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
