NATIONAL LEGAL SCHOLARS LAW FIRM
David T. Goldberg
David T. Goldberg - Harvard Law School, J.D., magna cum laude; Harvard College, B.A. (in Economics) magna cum laude. He served as an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review, Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter,and Law Clerk to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg (then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit). From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Goldberg served on the staff of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc., where he participated in litigation, at both the trial and appellate level, concerning the scope of Congress’s authority to enforce constitutional rights, the constitutionality of voluntary school desegregation and affirmative action policies, the standards governing modification of and relief from judicial decrees, and the standing of private parties to enforce federal statutes and regulations. Since entering private practice, Mr. Goldberg has represented a broad array of clients - including the American Public Health Association, Catholic Charities U.S.A., the AARP, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Betty Ford Center, and numerous State and local government entities and officials - in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals. He also was Of Counsel to the firm of Cochran, Neufeld & Scheck in the Abner Louima v. City of New York police misconduct/civil rights litigation.