Education
University of Illinois College of Law (J.D.), summa cum laude, Order of the Coif
Emory University (B.A.)
Bar Admissions
Since joining Sparacino PLLC in November 2022, Mr. Goldstein has focused primarily on representing American victims of terrorist attacks and their family members in lawsuits against corporations and high net worth individuals for financing and providing other assistance to anti-American terrorist groups. He currently represents more than 2000 Americans—including severely wounded servicemembers and civilians, Gold Star family members, and families of murdered humanitarian aid workers and journalists—in anti-terrorism cases against the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and its billionaire founder and former CEO, the world’s largest cement manufacturer, several large European banks, and the largest mobile telecommunications network operator in Africa, as well as the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Prior to joining Sparacino PLLC, Mr. Goldstein was most recently a litigator at Shearman & Sterling LLP (now A&O Shearman) in New York. Before that, he practiced in the litigation and corporate bankruptcy & restructuring groups at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in Chicago, Illinois, where his practice focused on litigating a variety of complex disputes, including appeals, in several large corporate bankruptcy proceedings.
While at Shearman & Sterling, Mr. Goldstein successfully defended large financial institutions in class actions and other lawsuits brought by institutional “opt-out” investors asserting violations of federal and state securities laws, in cases involving residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS) issued prior to the 2008 financial crisis, and in complex commercial disputes for fraud and breach of contract. In those matters, Mr. Goldstein focused on dispositive motion practice and expert discovery; he has often been tasked by his clients to depose the opposing side’s most important expert witnesses and work closely with his client’s key experts. Mr. Goldstein also played key roles in several internal corporate investigations.
In his extensive prior pro bono work, Mr. Goldstein successfully obtained a multimillion-dollar judgment on behalf of 15 employees of a NYC-based Korean restaurant where, following a bench trial, a federal judge ordered the restaurant’s owner and his family to unwind multiple real estate conveyances, permitting Mr Goldstein’s clients to collect from the defendant on a prior judgment for underpayment of wages. He also successfully obtained complete dismissal of a complaint for breach of contract on behalf of a small immigrant-owned organic farm based in upstate New York against the largest agricultural credit union in the Northeast United States.
Mr. Goldstein graduated fifth in his class from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Emory University, where he was also a four-year member of the Barkley Forum debate society and a nationally ranked competitive policy debater.
Mr. Goldstein is licensed to practice law by the New York State Bar and the Illinois State Bar, as well as the United States District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts for the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, and the Northern District of Illinois. Until he is licensed to practice law by the Washington, D.C. Bar, Mr. Goldstein works under the supervision of partners of the Firm who are licensed to practice law in Washington, D.C.
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