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"After more than 30 years of teaching at Pepperdine University Law School, I still aspire to have my students respectfully fear me as much as they did Professor Goldman my first year of teaching. Using the Socratic method brilliantly, he was a master teacher and represented the highest level of challenge to excellence that I remember to this day."

Jim McGoldrick
Professor of Law (1971 - present)
Pepperdine University School of Law

Born:

• New York, New York, 1937

• University of Southern California (B.S.L., 1960)
• University of Southern California, School of Law (J.D., 1962)
• Private Pilot License, USA (1980)
  

• California, 1963
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 1963
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 1970
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1971
• United Kingdom, Court of Inquiry, 1972 (Investigating crash of
  British European Airways Trident jet in June 1972, London, England)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1973
• United States Court of Federal Claims, 1974
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1977
• District of Columbia, 1979
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1982
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 1983
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 2006
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2006
• U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois, 2008

• Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy

• State Bar of California
• District of Columbia Bar
• American Bar Association, The Forum on Air and Space Law, Litigation Section and Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section
• The American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA) Aviation Law Section, STEP-Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts Section
• Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
• Experimental Aircraft Association
• World Jurist Association of the World Peace Through Law Center
• Founding Member, World Association of Law Professors of the World Peace Through Law Center
• Lawyers Professional Liability Bar Association
• Consumer Attorneys of California
• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• National Board of Trial Advocacy
• International Bar Association, Aviation Law Committee
• Life Member, Ostriches Anonymous Association (OAA), Promoting Aviation Safety and Risk Awareness
• Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee, September 11, 2001 Tort Litigation
• Member, Lead Trial Counsel, Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-1574, Paxil Products Liability Litigation
• Lead Trial Counsel, 2006; 1998 Bell Helicopter crash in Los Angeles, California
• Lead Trial Counsel, 2006; 2004 Tyson Foods truck crash near Crestline, Ohio
• Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, MDL-1953, Heparin Products Liability Litigation
  

• Adjunct Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law, 1968 to 1989

• Aviation Accident Law
• Torts and Insurance
• Legal Writing and Analysis

• Orange County Superior Court (1975)
• Beverly Hills Municipal Court
• Los Angeles Municipal Court
• Arbitrator/Mediator--Los Angeles Superior Court
• Arbitrator--American Arbitration Association (to 1994)
• Mediator--42 hours training at Pepperdine University’s Institute for Dispute Resolution

World Peace Through Law Conferences: New York, Manila, Madrid. Special Guest Lecturer: Christchurch Polytechnic, School of Broadcasting, Christchurch, New Zealand; Shanghai School of Social Science, Shanghai, P.R.C.; Belli Seminars Lecturer; Town Hall Lecturer.

Topics Include:

• Aviation Law
• Product Liability
• Personal Injury
• Tort Law
• Legal Malpractice
• Right of Privacy
• Medical Malpractice
• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law

• "Another Level of Justice: The Public Apology" Published in Andrews Aviation Litigation Reporter,Volume 24, Issue 5 / April 2006 by Thomson West and ATLA-Association of Trial Lawyers of America Aviation Law Section Newsletter Vol. 13, No. 3, Spring 2006

• Listed, Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers
• Published in Million Dollar Verdicts by the Masters
• Southern California Super Lawyer 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
  

• Served as Chairman of the Board, and was a founder of the Family Assistance Program, a charitable, public benefit, corporation, organized to assist homeless families (originally known as the Family Assistance Program of Hollywood.)
• A founder of, and general counsel for, The Women’s Clinic, a free clinic providing health care needs to needy women in Los Angeles.

• U.S.A. vs. Moore
  427 F.2d 1020 (10th Cir.--1970)
  [Administrative Law; equitable relief, injunctions]
• People vs. Powell
  14 C.A.3d 693, 92 C.R. 501 (1971)
  [Felony murder rule]
• Cacciaguidi v. Elliott
  39 Cal.App.3d 261, 114 Cal.Rptr. 93, 39 Cal. Comp. Cases 963, Cal.App. 2 Dist. (1974)
• Drenzek vs. Inmont Corp.
  57 C.A.3d 878, 129 C.R. 429 (1976)
  [Assumption of Risk]
• Dassin vs. Darlene Knitwear
  387 F.Supp. 958 (USDC, D.Puerto Rico--1974)
  [In personam jurisdiction]
• Baxter vs. Superior Court
  19 C.3d 461, 138 C.R. 315 (1977)
  [Loss of consortium]
• Benjamins vs. British European Airways
  572 F.2d 913 (2nd Cir. 1978)
  [Warsaw Convention]
• Cable vs. Sahara Tahoe Corp.
  93 C.A.3d 1025, 155 C.R. 770 (1979)
  [Conflict of laws]
• La Pietra vs. Freed
  87 C.A.3d 384, 151 C.R. 554 (1979)
  [Arbitration]
• Flashman v. Superior Court (Pacific Southwest Airlines)
  107 Cal.App.3d 117, 165 Cal.Rptr. 680, Cal.App. 4 Dist. (1980)
  [Coordination and venue]
• Sevilla vs. Stearns-Roger, Inc.
  101 C.A.3d 608, 161 C.R. 700 (1980)
  [Product Liability]
• Harris Corp. vs. Comair
  712 F.2d 1069 (6th Cir. 1983)
  [Right of employer to collect for death of employee; Avi. Accid. Law; Conflict of laws, Negligence]
• Gradus vs. Hanson Aviation
  158 C.A.3d 1038, 205 C.R. 211 (1984)
  [Duty of common carrier (see BAJI 6.51); Fed. Avi. Regs., Part 135, Res Ipsa Loquitur, Negligence]
  [Closing argument published by Million Dollar Verdicts by Western Masters]
• In Re Aircrash Disaster Near Cerritos,
  DiCosta vs. Aeronaves de Mexico, SA
  973 F.2d 1490 (9th Cir. 1992)
  [Emotional Distress]
• Brooks vs. St. Mary's Hospital
  57 C.A.4th 241, 66 C.R.2d 820 (1997)
  [Preemption Doctrine/Constitutional Law]
  [Case settled pending re-hearing; depublished]
• McCoy v. Southwest Airlines Co., Inc.
  211 F.R.D. 381 (C.D.Cal., 2002)
• McCoy v. Southwest Airlines Co., Inc.
  208 F.R.D. 617 (C.D.Cal. 2002)

• Airline Crash Litigation
• Aviation Accidents
• Aviation Product Liability
• Bus Accidents
• Catastrophic Injury
• Complex and Multi-District Litigation
• Helicopter Crash Litigation
• Personal Injury Law
• Pharmaceutical Product Liability
• Product Liability
• Wrongful Death Law