Frank Rothschild started off his legal career after graduating from Georgetown University Law Center (JD-1970) by clerking at the United States Court of Claims in Washington, D.C. He then established a private general practice in Marin County, California, served as a public defender in Juneau, Alaska, acted as a civil litigator for Perkins Coie in its Anchorage, Alaska office, tried cases as a felony prosecutor for the Anchorage District Attorney’s office, and then in 1985 fled to Hawaii, where he has lived ever since.

Since 1978 Frank has taught hundreds of basic and advanced trial training, deposition, and technology courses for large firms, insurance companies, government agencies and through the National Institute for Trial Advocacy. In 1996 he received NITA’s Hon. Prentice H. Marshall Faculty Award recognizing his accomplishments as an advocacy teacher. Since the early 1990’s Frank has acted as an arbitrator and mediator. He is also on the appellate mediation panel for the Hawaii Judiciary’s Center for Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 1994 he was appointed by the Chief Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court as a Per Diem Judge, where he has heard both civil and criminal cases in District Court and domestic cases in Family Court ever since.