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Timestamp: 2019-04-22 06:23:51+00:00

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Mr. Goodman is a partner in the firm’s San Diego and Los Angeles offices and is a member of the Commercial Litigation, Securities Litigation, and Antitrust Practice Groups. Mr. Goodman’s practice focuses on representing corporations, officers and directors in complex business litigation in both federal and state courts. He has extensive experience in consumer and securities class action lawsuits.
Mr. Goodman has served as an adjunct professor or visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and Thomas Jefferson School of Law. He has taught courses including Securities Regulation, Global Antitrust Law and Policy, and European Union Law. Mr. Goodman also has served as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, and has served on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Antitrust and Unfair Business Practices Section.
Member of a team that successfully obtained a class action defense verdict on behalf of a multinational clothing corporation in a case facing more than $1 billion of exposure and a $288 million demand. In Andrew R. Dremak v. Urban Outfitters, Inc., San Diego County Superior Court, Case No. 37-2011-00085814-CU-BT-CTL, the plaintiffs alleged that the firm’s client violated the Song-Beverly Credit Card Act by asking customers to provide their ZIP codes when making a purchase in their California stores. In the plaintiffs’ opening statement of the six-day bench trial, they asked the court to award $288 million to the class, and then increased their request to $800 million in their post-trial statement. The court ruled that “Defendants are the prevailing party under all theories” and entered a verdict against plaintiffs and class and in favor of Gordon & Rees’s client. This is the first defense verdict in California state courts related to the collection of ZIP codes and one of the top defense verdicts of 2016. The case was the cover story in the Daily Journal. Please click here to view the article.
Member of a team representing a major accounting firm in one of the largest tax fraud investigations in U.S. history. In United States v. KPMG LLP, U.S. Dist. Court, S.D.N.Y, Case No. 05 Crim. 0903 (LAP), the government alleged that our client had engaged in fraudulent conduct through allegedly creating and promoting illegal tax shelters for high net worth individuals. Mr. Goodman was involved in all aspects of the case, including helping to draft a deferred prosecution agreement pursuant to which a one-count information was filed and then dismissed after our client fulfilled the requirements of the agreement.
Member of a team representing a large corporation facing multiple consumer class action lawsuits throughout California. For example, in Watson CSR, Inc. v. AT&T Mobility LLC, U.S. District Court, C.D.Ca., No. CV09-02502, Mr. Goodman defended AT&T Mobility against a putative class action lawsuit concerning AT&T Mobility’s contract disclosures. Plaintiff stipulated to dismissal of the complaint following a meet and confer on AT&T Mobility’s planned Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings.
Lead member of a team asserting claims for violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of a public pension fund and a class of investors against one of the largest providers of assisted living care facilities in the country. In Pension Trust Fund for Operating Eng’r v. Assisted Living Concepts, Inc., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Case No. 12-cv-00884, before the Honorable J.P. Stadtmueller, Mr. Goodman had primary responsibility for drafting the consolidated complaint, undertaking discovery and drafting and opposing motions. Team successfully moved to have the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLA”) discovery stay lifted (which is a rare occurrence in federal securities cases). Pension Trust Fund for Operating Eng’r v. Assisted Living Concepts, Inc., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 63378 (E.D. Wis. May 3, 2013). We also successfully opposed Defendants’ motions to dismiss. Pension Trust Fund for Operating Eng'rs v. Assisted Living Concepts, Inc., 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 87568 (E.D. Wis. June 21, 2013). On September 13, 2013, the parties filed an unopposed motion for preliminary approval of a $12 million settlement.
Lead member of a team asserting violations of the federal securities laws on behalf of a public pension fund and a class of shareholders in a computer memory chip manufacturer. In West Virginia Laborers Pension Trust Fund v. STEC Inc., California Superior Court, Orange County, Case No. 30-2011-00489022-CU-SL-CXC, before the Honorable Gail A. Andler, Mr. Goodman was primarily responsible for drafting the consolidated complaint, briefs and undertaking discovery. He successfully argued a motion before U.S. District Judge James V. Selna of the Central District of California to have this matter remanded to state court. West Virginia Laborers Trust Fund v. STEC Inc., 2011 WL 6156945 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 7, 2011). On August 26, 2013, Judge Andler entered an order for stipulated dismissal following global settlement of multiple actions against the defendants for $35,750,000.
Member of a subprime litigation team that recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for institutional investors through securities class actions against various investment banks, arising from those banks’ multibillion-dollar losses from mortgage-backed investments. For example, in In re Wells Fargo Mortgage-Backed Certificates Litigation, U.S. Dist. Court, C.D.Ca., No. CV 09-cv-1376, we recovered $125 million in the first settlement of a class action asserting Securities Act claims for mortgage-backed securities.

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