Mr. Goodman focuses his practice on bankruptcy, other insolvency proceedings, corporate restructuring, and distressed transactions. He has represented chapter 11 debtors, official creditors' committees, ad hoc committees, trustees, secured lenders, purchasers of assets and unsecured creditors in chapter 11 cases, including some of the largest chapter 11 cases in the country. In addition, Mr. Goodman counsels clients in liquidations, workouts, assignments for the benefit of creditors and transactions and handles bankruptcy and creditors' rights litigation in both federal and state court.

Mr. Goodman has extensive experience in the area of commodities and securities bankruptcies, having served as counsel to one of the largest creditors in the multi-billion dollar chapter 11 case of In re Refco, Inc. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and as counsel to an Ad Hoc Committee of Customers in the billion dollar case of In re Sentinel Management Group, Inc. in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Goodman has counseled large mutual funds, hedge funds, futures commission merchants and other entities in this area.

Mr. Goodman's practice also covers the areas of healthcare and energy bankruptcies, having served as counsel to the debtor and large secured and unsecured creditors in significant healthcare cases and counsel to the creditors' committee in the large chapter 11 cases of coal companies Horizon Natural Resources Company and Black Diamond Mining Company, LLC.

Prior to joining Foley, Mr. Goodman clerked for Judge Francis D. Murnaghan, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Mr. Goodman received his J.D. degree, summa cum laude, in 1999 from the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was notes editor of the Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He received his bachelor's degree in political science (B.A., with honors, 1996) from Illinois Wesleyan University.

Mr. Goodman has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars Edition.*

Mr. Goodman is admitted to practice in Maryland and Illinois.

*The Illinois Supreme Court does not recognize certifications of specialties in the practice of law and no award or recognition is a requirement to practice law in Illinois.