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Thomas C. Goldstein is the presiding co-leader of Akin Gump’s firmwide litigation management committee.
Mr. Goldstein’s practice is focused on Supreme Court litigation. He has argued 22 cases before the Court on a diverse array of federal law questions.
In the Supreme Court and elsewhere, Mr. Goldstein litigates and advises clients in a broad range of issues. For example, he regularly litigates and lectures on questions of federal patent law. Mr. Goldstein frequently advises clients, litigates and consults on legislative matters relating to the First Amendment. And he regularly represents parties in questions relating to the game of poker, including its lawfulness as a matter of federal and state law.
In addition to practicing law, Mr. Goldstein teaches Supreme Court litigation at Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. Mr. Goldstein also founded and publishes SCOTUSblog, which in 2010 became the only weblog ever to receive the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award for fostering the American public’s understanding of law and the legal system.
Mr. Goldstein has been repeatedly recognized as a leading member of the bar. In 2010, The National Law Journal named him one of the 40 most influential lawyers of the decade; Mr. Goldstein notably was ten years younger than any other law firm partner listed. Legal Times named him one of the “90 Greatest Washington Lawyers of the Last 30 Years” and praised him for “transforming the practice” of law before the Supreme Court. Mr. Goldstein is also included on the most recent lists of the 100 most influential lawyers in America (The National Law Journal); the 50 most influential people in Washington, D.C. (GQ); the leading appellate lawyers in Washington, D.C. (Legal Times); and the 30 best lawyers in Washington, D.C. (Washingtonian). He has also been recognized as a leading lawyer in 2010 by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of appellate.
In addition, Mr. Goldstein has been hailed as a leading young lawyer. Among many recognitions, The National Law Journal twice named him one of the nation’s leading attorneys under the age of 40 and The American Lawyer recognized him as one of the nation’s top 45 attorneys under the age of 45.
Mr. Goldstein is involved with a number of professional organizations. He was appointed by the president of the ABA to its Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs, and he also serves as the vice chair of the Amicus Committee of the ABA’s Intellectual Property Section. In those capacities, he has authored several Supreme Court amicus briefs for the ABA. In addition, Mr. Goldstein serves on the boards of advisors of the Washington Legal Foundation and the Georgetown University Supreme Court Institute.
Mr. Goldstein received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina in 1992 and his J.D. summa cum laude from American University’s Washington College of Law in 1995, after which he clerked for the Honorable Patricia M. Wald of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Maryland bars.
Before joining Akin Gump, Mr. Goldstein was a partner at Goldstein & Howe, the firm he founded in 1999. He previously practiced law at two other law firms.
Mr. Goldstein has argued the following cases before the U.S. Supreme Court—
- Hamilton v. Lanning, March 22, 2010
- Republic of Iraq v. Beaty, et al.; Republic of Iraq, et al. v. Robert Simon, et al., April 20, 2009
- Cone v. Bell, December 9, 2008
- Jimenez v. Quarterman, November 4, 2008
- Virginia v. Moore, January 14, 2008
- KSR International v. Teleflex, November 28, 2006
- Georgia v. Randolph, November 8, 2005
- IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez, October 3, 2005
- National Cable and Telecomm. Assn v. Brand X Internet Services, March 29, 2005
- Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd., February 28, 2005
- Smith v. City of Jackson, Miss., November 3, 2004
- F. Hoffman-LaRoche, Ltd. v. Empagran S.A., April 26, 2004
- Central Laborers’ Pension Fund v. Heinz, April 19, 2004
- Lamie v. United States Trustee, November 10, 2003
- Clay v. United States, January 13, 2003
- United States v. Bean, October 16, 2002
- Devlin v. Scardelletti, March 16, 2002
- Bartnicki v. Vopper, December 5, 2000
- Egelhoff v. Eglehoff, November 8, 2000
- Norfolk Southern R. Co. v. Shanklin, March 1, 2000
- Los Angeles Police Dept. v. United Reporting Publishing Corp., October 13, 1999
- Cunningham v. Hamilton County, OH, April 19, 1999.
Written Works
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"Rising Star: Akin Gump's Tom Goldstein,"
Law360,
April 9, 2010
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"The Decade's Most Influential Lawyers,"
The National Law Journal,
March 29, 2010
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"In Defense of Lobbying,"
The Wall Street Journal,
September 4, 2009
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"Her Justice is Blind,"
The New York Times,
June 15, 2009
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Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia
- Maryland
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S.C.A., DC Circuit
- U.S.C.A., Federal Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 1st Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 2nd Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 3rd Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 4th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 5th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 6th Circuit
- U.S.C.A., 11th Circuit
Clerkships
Education
- J.D., American University, Washington College of Law, summa cum laude, 1995
- A.B., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992
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