Biography

Jonathan Goldberg, an experienced trial lawyer, is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department in the New York office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP and a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Goldberg represents clients in complex commercial litigation, ERISA litigation, and employment litigation. He is admitted in both New York and New Jersey and has successfully litigated in federal and state courts throughout the country. Among other things, Mr. Goldberg has defended corporate and individual clients in connection with investigations by the United States Department of Labor and the United States Department of Justice (Antitrust Division), defended corporate clients in federal and state courts for claims of discrimination and wrongful termination, and represented corporations and individuals in trade secrets and restrictive covenant litigation. Mr. Goldberg is a leader of the firm's interdisciplinary "Madoff Team," created to assist clients in understanding and addressing the various legal issues raised in connection with the alleged misconduct of Bernard Madoff. Additional areas of concentration include: executive compensation counseling, litigation, and arbitration, advancement and indemnification proceedings, civil RICO litigation, whistleblower litigation, defamation litigation, international litigation and arbitration, antitrust litigation and arbitration, products liability litigation, and environmental and toxic tort litigation.

Between 1996 and 1998, Mr. Goldberg served as a federal law clerk for the Honorable Harvey E. Schlesinger, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida.

Education

J.D., American University Washington College of Law, summa cum laude, 1995

Senior Articles Editor, The American University Law Review
Finalist, First-Year Moot Court Competition
Honorable Mention, Oral Advocacy Competition
Public Interest Law Clinic

B.A., Swarthmore College, with Honors, 1992

Admissions

• New York
• New Jersey

Courts

• U.S. District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
• U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit