Phil Goldberg, a partner in Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Public Policy Practice, works with clients to address their legal public policy issues and manage public relations for their litigation crises. The Public Policy Group's "Iron Triangle" defense is to use legislative, media and broad-based litigation solutions for complex corporate litigation problems.

On the legal public policy front, Phil achieves results for clients that transcend, but impact individual cases. As a former aide to Democratic members of Congress, he counsels clients reach their goals in a variety of political environments. For legislative and executive branch issues, he drafts legislation and policy statements, testifies before committees, builds coalitions and lobbies federal and state governments. For court-based issues, he advances client agendas through writing amicus briefs for national business associations, speaking at judicial and attorney conferences and writing articles.

In addition, Phil teams with SHB's litigators to cost-effectively manage client legal defenses with their government and public relations needs. Before joining SHB, Phil was vice president of litigation communications for Ketchum, a top 10 public relations firm, and Powell Tate, a leading Washington, D.C., public affairs firm. He provides communications advice, manages public relations firms, and briefs reporters and editorial board members on client litigations.

His substantive specialties are tort law theories and defenses, including public nuisance theory, regulatory compliance defenses, asbestos and toxic tort liability, products liability, global warming litigation, biotechnology liability and the new wave of pet injury lawsuits. He also focus on leaks of confidential information in litigation, media shield laws, and attorney-client privilege with public relations firms.

Phil is a recipient of SHB's Mosaic Award for his efforts to enhance diversity in the legal profession. He received his law degree from The George Washington University School of Law, where he was Order of the Coif, and his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Tufts University.

Phil Goldberg, How Litigators Tried to Sneak a Pet Earmark Into Health Reform, Progressive Fix (Progressive Pol’y Inst. Nov. 23, 2009), available at http://www.progressivefix.com/how-litigators-tried-to-sneak-a-pet-earmark-into-health-reform

Mark Behrens & Phil Goldberg, Editorial, Home of the Asbestos Litigation “Gold Rush?,” Daily J. (San Fran.), at 5 (Nov. 18, 2009) View

Victor E. Schwartz , Phil Goldberg, & Christopher E. Appel, Can Governments Impose a New Tort Duty to Prevent External Risks? The “No-Fault” Theories Behind Today’s High-Stakes Government Recoupment Suits, 44 Wake Forest L. Rev. 923 (2009) View

Phil S. Goldberg, Kudos to Congress for Saying "No" to Renewed Attempts to Turn MSP Into New Vehicles for Litigation Abuse, Medicare Report (BNA) July 24, 2009 View

Phil Goldberg, Will Proposed Changes to Medicare Law Inspire New Wave of Health Care-Related Tort Suits?, 23:36 Legal Backgrounder (Wash. Legal Found. Aug. 8, 2008) View

David C. Landin, Victor E. Schwartz & Phil Goldberg, Lessons Learned from the Front Lines: A Trial Court Checklist for Promoting Order and Sound Public Policy in Asbestos Litigation, 16 Brook. J.L. & Pol’y 589 (2008) View

Victor E. Schwartz & Phil Goldberg, Florida Making Wrong Waves Over Homeowner Insurance Crisis, 23:20 Legal Backgrounder (Wash. Legal Found. May 30, 2008) View

Victor E. Schwartz, Philip Goldberg & Christopher Appel, Plaintiffs' Bar Campaign to Introduce Pain and Suffering Damages in Pet Food Cases Will Only Increase the Pain and Suffering of People's Pets, 35:39 Prod. Safety & Liab. Rptr. (BNA) 947, Oct. 8, 2007 View

Victor E. Schwartz, Cary Silverman & Phil Goldberg, Toward Neutral Principles of Stare Decisis in Tort Law, 58 S.C. L. Rev. 317 (2006) View

Victor E. Schwartz, Paul W. Kalish, & Phil Goldberg, A Letter to the Nation’s Trial Judges: Serious Asbestos Cases – How to Protect Cancer Claimants and Wisely Manage Assets, 30 Am. J. of Trial Advoc. 295 (2006) View

Mark A. Behrens & Phil Goldberg, Lawsuit Scandal Reform: Asbestos and Silica Medical Criteria Legislation Needed, Mo. Law. Wkly., Oct. 9, 2006 View

Victor E. Schwartz & Phil Goldberg, Total Immunity Without Accountability: Why the Proposed Federal Media Shield Bill is Out of Balance with America's Laws and Values, 10:5 Briefly (Nat'l Legal Center for the Pub. Int.), May 2006 View

Victor E. Schwartz & Phil Goldberg, The Law of Public Nuisance: Maintaining Rational Boundaries on a Rational Tort, 45 Washburn L.J. 541 (2006) View

Mark A. Behrens & Phil Goldberg, In Memoriam: Senior United States District Judge Charles R. Weiner, 20:22 Mealey's Litig. Rep.: Asbestos 24 (2005) View

Mark A. Behrens & Phil Goldberg, State-Based Medical Criteria For Asbestos Suits Gains Momentum, 15:13 Legal Opinion Letter, Wash. Legal Found., July 1, 2005

Mark A. Behrens & Phil Goldberg, Stopping Asbestos Litigation Abuse, 6:1 Engage – The J. of the Federalist Society’s Prac. Groups 120 (2005) View

Mark A. Behrens & Phil Goldberg, Asbestos Litigation: Momentum Builds for State-Based Medical Criteria Solutions to Address Filings by the Non-Sick, 20:6 Mealey’s Litig. Rep.: Asbestos 33 (2005) View

Victor E. Schwartz, Mark A. Behrens & Phil Goldberg, Defining the Edge of Tort Law in Asbestos Bankruptcies: Addressing Claims Filed by the Non-Sick, 14:1 J. Bankr. L. & Prac. 61 (2005) View

Victor E. Schwartz & Phil Goldberg, A Prescription for Drug Liability and Regulation, 58 Okla. L. Rev. 135 (2005) View

Mark A. Behrens & Phil S. Goldberg, Editorial, Asbestos X-rays: Study Points To Abuse, Nat'l L.J., Nov. 1, 2004, at 19 View

Victor E. Schwartz & Phil S. Goldberg, Closing the Food Court: Why Legislative Action is Needed to Curb Obesity Lawsuits, 8:8 Briefly (Nat'l Legal Center for the Pub. Int., Wash., D.C.), August 2004 View

Mark A. Behrens & Phil S. Goldberg, The Asbestos Litigation Crisis in a Nutshell, The State Factor (Am. Legis. Exch. Council), July 2004 View

Mark A. Behrens & Philip S. Goldberg, Asbestos Litigation Reform: Where Is It Headed?, 15:1Products Liability (ABA, Sec. Of Litig., Comm. on Prods. Liab. Litig.), Spring/Summer 2004, at 1 View

Mark A. Behrens & Philip S. Goldberg, The Michigan Supreme Court: Will It Help Curb Asbestos Litigation Abuse And Help The Truly Sick?, 18:24 Mealey’s Litig. Rep.: Asbestos, Jan. 21, 2004 View

Phil S. Goldberg, Courts Should Keep Media Abuse Out of Litigation: Trial Judge Put the Onus on the Wrong Party in Ordering Defense to Justify Keeping Proprietary Documents Private, 167 N.J.L.J. 259 (2002)

Phil S. Goldberg, Facing Antitrust Action? Who’s Handling Your Media, 8:12 The Metropolitan Corp. Couns., Dec. 2000

Phil is admitted to practice before the state courts of Maryland, New Jersey and in the District of Columbia.

2001   J.D., George Washington University Law School (Order of the Coif)

1990   B.A., cum laude, Tufts University

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