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Mr. Goldman has represented major corporations and others in litigation involving diverse subject matters, including tax, administrative, constitutional, commercial, and international law. Mr. Goldman’s experience includes most facets of litigation in the federal courts, including the argument of complex legal and factual issues at trial and on appeal.
Matters handled by Mr. Goldman include co-representation of the taxpayer in one of the largest and longest state tax proceedings ever conducted; representation of an oil company in a suit against the Government of Libya to enforce a foreign arbitral award; a petition to review a retaliatory FCC order against an international record carrier; and federal court challenges to the impoundment of a federal housing subsidy and the assertion of bankruptcy court jurisdiction over airport landing slots. He also was a principal participant in Exxon Corp. v. Commissioner, 66 T.C.M. (CCH) 1707 (1993), and Exxon Corp. v. United States, 931 F.2d 874 (Fed. Cir. 1991). He has appeared in both the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on appointment by the court.
In addition to over 25 years in private practice, from 1973 to 1975, Mr. Goldman served as an assistant special prosecutor in the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, where he was a member of the task force investigating the Watergate break-in and cover-up and a member of the trial team in the Watergate case.
He was a member of the Legal Ethics Committee of the District of Columbia Bar from 1984 to 1991 and served as vice chair from 1989 to 1990.
Mr. Goldman is a graduate of Harvard College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. | 