Neil A. Goldberg

Neil A. Goldberg

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Neil Goldberg is past president of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), the largest organization of civil defense attorneys in the United States. He is the past president and board chairman of the Lawyers for Civil Justice. He is the past chair of DRI's Products Liability Committee as well as the past chair of the New York State Bar Association's Products Liability Committee. Neil is a member of the Board of Directors of the USLAW Network and is on the Advisory Board of the Bureau of National Affairs' (BNA) Product Safety & Liability Reporter. He has defended complex catastrophic cases across the United States for a number of New York Stock Exchange companies.  

Neil is the editor of and contributing author of seven books on the defense of complex personal injury cases. He is the co-editor-in-chief of the two-volume treatise, Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit, second edition, published by the New York State Bar Association, 2004.  Neil is also editor-in-chief and contributing author to Products Liability in New York, Strategy and Practice (1997).  He is the editor-in-chief of DRI's Daubert Compendium. 

Neil is a frequent lecturer on the defense of product liability and personal injury actions. He has lectured for Lloyds of London, the Defense Research Institute, Practicing Law Institute, the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Southern Methodist University and other prestigious organizations throughout the United States and Europe.  

Neil possesses an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. 

Honors
  • Selected for inclusion in the International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers
  • Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition
  • Selected for inclusion in New York Super Lawyers
  • Named one of the Top 50 New York Super Lawyers
  • Selected for inclusion in Business First’s Who’s Who in Law
  • Defense Research Institute: Distinguished Service Award
  • New York State Bar Association:  Committee Chair of the Year Award;  Distinguished Service Award
  • Who's Who in America
  • Who's Who in American Law
  • Who's Who Legal 
 Professional Affiliations
  • Lawyers for Civil Justice:  Past Board Chairman;  Past President, Lawyers for Civil Justice, 2004-2005)
  • Defense Research Institute:  Past President;  Products Liability Committee, Former Chair; Research and Development Committee; Law Institute
  • USLAW Network, Executive Committee
  • Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel
  • New York State Bar Association: Past Chair, Products Liability Committee;  Torts, Insurance and Compensation Section;  Trial Lawyers Section 
  • Products Liability Advisory Council: Former Member, Board of Directors
  • Bureau of National Affairs' Product Safety & Liability Reporter, Advisory Board Member   
  • American Arbitration Association
  • International Association of Defense Counsel
  • International Association for Insurance Law 
  • American Bar Association 
  • Trial Lawyers of America
  • Erie County Bar Association
Admitted to Practice
  • New York
Education
  • State University of New York at Stony Brook, B.A. cum laude, 1969
  • State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law, J.D. cum laude, 1973 (Member, Buffalo Law Review)
Publications/Presentations
  • Presenter, "The Use of Social Media to Defend the Catastrophic Case," USLAW Regional Meeting, Dallas, TX, January 2011
  • Presenter, "Using the New Science of Jury Psychology to Win the Battle of the Experts in High Stakes Litigation," 22nd Annual Medical Device Defense Seminar, Bend, Oregon, June 2009
  • Co-Author, "Through Regulations and in Court: The 2008 CPSIA Starts to Take Shape," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, April, 2009
  • Co-Author, "CPSC Power Expands: Legislation Brings Change to Consumer Products Industry," USLAW Magazine, Spring/Summer, 2009
  • Moderator, "Avoiding the Perils of the New CPSIA," USLAW Network Spring Conference, Charleston, SC, March, 2009
  • Co-Author, "Negotiating the Landscape of Increased Penalties under CPSIA," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, February, 2009
  • Co-Author, "The New CPSC Public Database of Incidents," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2008
  • Co-Author, "The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008: Preparing for the Unknown and the Unknowable," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, October, 2008  
  • Co-Author, "Product Recalls Stir Public Sentiment," USLAW Magazine, Spring/Summer, 2008
  • Presenter, "Products Liability from Emerging Markets," Canadian Defence Lawyers Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, June, 2008
  • Presenter, "Avoiding Quality Assurance Breakdowns and Conducting a Swift and Effective Product Recall in the Event They Occur," American Conference Institute, Las Vegas, Nevada, February, 2008
  • Co-Author, "Frye 'Em: Jury Psychology Can Undermine Plaintiffs' Expert Witnesses," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2007
  • Co-Author, "An Emerging Litigation Arena," For the Defense, Defense Research Institute, December, 2006  
  • Participant, American Society for Quality 58th Annual Quality Congress, May, 2004
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, "Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit," New York State Bar Association, 2004
  • Editor-in-Chief and Contributing Author, "Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit," 2004 Supplement, New York State Bar Association, 2004
  • Editor-in-Chief, "The Daubert Compendium," Defense Research Institute, January, 2003
  • Editor-in-Chief and Contributing Author, "Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit," 2000 Supplement, New York State Bar Association, 2000
  • Editor and Contributing Author, "Products Liability in New York: Strategy and Practice," New York State Bar Association, 1997
  • Co-Author, "Admissibility of Expert Testimony, A State-by-State Compendium," Defense Research Institute, 1996
  • Author, "Defenses & Bars, Product Liability Practice Guide," Matthew Bender
  • Co-Author, "Finding the Facts in Products Liability Litigation," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, October, 1996
  • "Defense Counsel's Approach to Cross-Examination in the Post-Daubert Era," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, June, 1996
  • Co-Author, "The Hunter, the Ostrich and the Spinmaster," For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, October, 1994
  • Editor-in-Chief, "Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit," New York State Bar Association, 1987
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