Neal Goldfarb has had more than 20 years of experience in complex litigation, much of it in federal court, in a broad range of business, corporate, and commercial disputes. He has handled cases involving intellectual property, fraud and other business torts, corporate and partnership disputes, RICO and securities fraud, insurance coverage, banking, real estate and construction, professional liability and responsibility, labor and employment, and government contracts. Immediately before joining the firm, Mr. Goldfarb was at a major intellectual-property firm where he specialized in patent litigation. Mr. Goldfarb is also experienced in constitutional and civil rights litigation and criminal law.

Mr. Goldfarb has tried cases in federal and state court, before administrative tribunals, and in arbitrations. He is also a highly qualified appellate lawyer who has written numerous briefs on appeal and argued cases in several of the federal circuits and in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. His appellate experience also includes writing friend-of-the-court briefs for national advocacy organizations in the federal courts of appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Goldfarb has worked on a number of important First Amendment cases, including Lederman v. United States, where he successfully argued in federal appeals court in favor of the right to demonstrate on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, Food Lion v. ABC, where he filed a friend-of-the-court brief on media liability for acts of trespass and fraud committed by undercover reports, and Rice v. Paladin Press, where he filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the question of whether the publisher of an instruction manual on murder for hire may be held liable for murders committed by someone who was following the book's instructions.

Mr. Goldfarb obtained his law degree, summa cum laude, from the American University in 1980. He graduated first in his class and received the Outstanding Graduate Award and the Washington College of Law Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He was an article editor of the American University Law Review. Mr. Goldfarb has taught legal writing at the George Washington University Law School. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia.