LITIGATION & EXPERIENCE:   I am an AV-Rated Attorney with 25+ years of first-chair trial, litigation and appellate experience. I have concentrated my practice to largely complex matters involving wrongful death, personal injury, product defects, and professional negligence. I have successfully litigated and tried cases in the civil, probate, and criminal divisions of Ohio’s state courts; and complex pharmaceutical and medical device matters in U.S. Federal District Courts and the United States Court of Federal Claims. I have briefed and argued many appeals at the state level including one case in the Ohio Supreme Court, reported as Carpenter v. Consolidated Rail Corp. (1994), 69 Ohio St. 3d 259, where the Court unanimously held in favor of my client on a first-impression federal preemption matter.  I have briefed and argued dozens of appeals in several district appellate courts; prepared and filed original actions for writs of mandamus & quo warra
nto; prepared and filed petitions for certiorari in the United States Supreme Court. I have actively participated in high profile multi-district litigation involving pharmaceutical and medical device cases.

EDUCATION:    J.D., Capital University School of Law, May 1988
B.A., English, Arizona State University, May 1985

BAR ADMISSIONS:    Supreme Court of Ohio
United States Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Federal Claims, Washington D.C.
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois

PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS:    American Bar Association
Ohio State Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Ohio Association for Justice
Cleveland Academy of Trial Lawyers
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
Mass Tort Trial Lawyers Association
Mahoning County Bar Association
Million Dollar Advocates Forum

PERSONAL:    Birthdate: January 8, 1962
Married to Amanda R. Goldberg (official court reporter)
Three Children: Taylor (16), Jessa (9), Lily (5)