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Kenneth D. Goldberg is the Senior Partner of the New York office. He is a 1970 graduate of Queens College of the City University of New York and a 1974 graduate of Brooklyn Law School where he was an editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. He is admitted in the State of New York, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of the United States District Courts located in New York.
For more than 30 years he has handled a wide variety of litigations, developing broad based expertise not only in all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration but in all facets of the representation of insurance carriers and self-insureds. His broad and diverse client base includes numerous property and casualty insurers; several of the leading Fortune 500 companies, including one of the largest credit and charge card companies in the world and one of the leading automotive finance companies in the country; the largest private university in the United States; and one of the leading internet based companies presently doing business in that growing market.
He has successfully represented his clients in both Federal and State courts, and before the American Arbitration Association, in New York State and a number of other jurisdictions. He has expanded his practice to incorporate complex mediation, having recently acted as a private mediator in a dispute between two multi-state corporations. He has also used his training as an educator to travel throughout the country to provide seminars to his clients on numerous legal issues.
BAR ADMISSIONS
State of New York
United States District Court for the Southern District of New York United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
United States District Court for the Northern District of New York
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
PRACTICE AREAS
Insurance Coverage Issues
Subrogation/ Recovery
Property and Cargo Loss
Liability and General Casualty Defense
Transportation Defense
Personal Injury Defense
Property Damage Defense
Construction Defense
Errors and Omission Defense
Defense of Self-Insured Entities
Commercial Litigation
Consumer Credit Defense
Defense of Businesses
Mediation and Arbitration
EDUCATION
Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1974)
Queens College of the City University of New York (B.A., Cum Laude, 1970)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Defense Research Institute
Trucking Industry Defense Association
PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
The Pension Dilemma: An Analysis of Discord between the IRS and the NLRB, 39 Brooklyn Law Review 684 (1973)
REPORTED CASES
Dunn v. Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., 262 A.D. 2d 444(2nd Dept., 1999)
Karp v. Siegel and American Express, 1988 WL 314769(SDNY, 1998)
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. V. Schuster Films,811 F. Supp. 978(SDNY, 1993)
Ige v. Command Security Corporation, 2002 WL 720944(EDNY,2002)
Sievert v. Molef et al, 220 A.D. 2d 403 (2nd Dept., 1995)
Mid-Hudson v. All City, 282 A.D. 2d 723 (2d Dept., 2001)
