biography
Jonathan Evan Goldberg is a litigation and employment law partner at FisherBroyles, LLP. An experienced trial lawyer and frequent public speaker, he has represented corporations, LLCs, partnerships, non-profits, law firms, and boards of directors, as well as officers, executives, attorneys, and others, in all aspects of complex commercial litigation, employment litigation, arbitration, and employment law. Mr. Goldberg, a native New Yorker, began his legal career at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, followed by a federal clerkship for The Honorable Harvey E. Schlesinger in the Middle District of Florida. Upon his return north, he joined the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell as a lateral, during which he successfully prosecuted and first chaired a federal jury trial involving claims of excessive force under Section 1983 (Ruffin v. Fuller). Seeking more trial experience, he joined Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman and subsequently joined the labor and employment department of Greenberg Traurig as Of Counsel. He left GT with a group of lawyers in 2008 and became a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, during which he again first chaired and won his second federa...
New York
Credentials
Admissions
New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Education
The American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., Summa Cum Laude, 1995
Swarthmore College, B.A. Honors, History/Art History, 1992
Prior Law Firm Experience
Baker & McKenzie
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Greenberg Traurig
Seyfarth Shaw
Dentons
Practice Areas
- Arbitration and Mediation
- Civil Pretrial & Trial Services
- Commercial Litigation
- Executive Compensation & Benefits
- Employment
- Government
- Insurance
- International
- Litigation & Risk Management
- Professional & Management Liability
- Education
- Products Liability Litigation & Counseling
- Media & Communications Law
- Intellectual Property Litigation
- Trade Secrets
- Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants