Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Stephen Goldberg is a partner in Dickstein Shapiro’s Insurance Coverage Practice. Mr. Goldberg focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, primarily insurance coverage matters that have involved coverage for asbestos liabilities, product liability claims, first party property damage and business interruption losses, alleged environmental damage, errors and omissions, and directors and officers liabilities, as well as bad faith claims. He has represented policyholders with coverage issues in litigations involving amounts ranging from hundreds of thousands to billions of dollars. Mr. Goldberg currently is co-leader of the Firm’s Property and Business Interruption Insurance Coverage Initiative.

Areas of Practice

• Consumer Litigation
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Insurance Recovery
• Product Liability

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Consumer Protection, Complex Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Insurance Law, Products Liability Law

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1970
• California, 1973
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association’s Litigation Section, Torts and Insurance Practice Section, and Litigation Section’s Committee on Insurance Coverage Litigation (Member)
• State Bar of California
• Bar Association of San Francisco’s Insurance Practice Section Executive Committee
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Attorney Settlement Officer)

Honors and Awards

• Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading attorney in the area of Insurance Coverage: California
• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America and Southern California Super Lawyers
• Southern California Super Lawyers

Classes and Seminars

• "Hot Topics and Recent Developments in Insurance Coverage,”, Association of Corporate Counsel, Southern California Chapter (ACCA-SoCal), Los Angeles, CA , March 19, 2008 - Present

Past Employment Positions

• Heller Ehrman LLP, Member
• Honorable Hubert L. Will of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Law Clerk

Education

• Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1970
  J.D.
• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967
  B.A., Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: cum laude

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Beta Kappa

Address

2049 Century Park East, Suite 700
Los Angeles, CA 90067-3109

Phones

(310) 772-8325

Faxes

(310) 772-8301

Emails

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Websites

http://www.dicksteinshapiro.com