Jerry S. Goldman

Jerry S. Goldman is a shareholder in Anderson Kill’s New York and Philadelphia offices. A former prosecutor in Brooklyn, New York, Jerry has built a highly successful and varied practice serving individuals and closely held businesses throughout the United States.

Jerry practices in the areas of complex litigation; general business law; white collar criminal defense; estate planning along with estate and trust administration; and federal taxation. He focuses on solving difficult problems by devising creative solutions.

Since 2004, Jerry has represented the lead plaintiff -- and currently represents thousands of other plaintiffs -- in In Re Terrorist Attacks, the consolidated litigation by families of 9/11 victims seeking justice and restitution from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and multiple other parties, including individuals, institutions, and nation-states, alleged to have provided material support to al Qaeda. Jerry and co-counsel have pursued justice for the 9/11 families through an over twenty-year litigation odyssey with many twists and turns, all the while pursuing access to long-withheld information that they will use to supplement existing evidence of foreign government support of the hijackers. The allied plaintiffs have conducted hundreds of hours of depositions, successfully fought over the release of thousands of pages of concealed evidence, and litigated challenging legal matters in United States District Courts in Washington, D.C., New York, and Chicago and the United States Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, D.C. and 7th Circuits, as well as presented and defended four petitions for certiorari before the Supreme Court of the United States. An overview and timeline of the suits' history and accomplishments to date can be read here.

Prior to founding his practice in 1982, Jerry served as Senior Assistant District Attorney and Senior Supervising Assistant District Attorney in the Kings County District Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. There he gained substantial experience litigating a variety of complex criminal matters and supervising a host of white-collar criminal prosecutions.

Many of Jerry's engagements have had international law components, ranging from complex litigations involving multi-national parties and claims to transnational business matters.

Jerry has been recognized by Super Lawyers as a New York Metro Super Lawyer for General Litigation since 2016. He has also been mentioned in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Lawyers, Who’s Who in Entertainment, and the Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys for both New York and Pennsylvania.

Speaking Engagements

Jerry has lectured before a variety of professional, trade, business and non-professional audiences on a variety of topics.

Memberships

Professional Memberships

Federal Bar Association New York City Bar Association International Cannabis Bar Association

Association Memberships

New York University Alumni Association: Vice President Emeritus/Director

New York University College of Arts and Science Alumni Association: President (2004-2007); Vice President (2001-2004); Secretary (1998-2001); and Director (1996-Present)

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Criminal Law Committee

Philadelphia and New York Estate Planning Councils

Former Chairman, Upper Southampton Township Planning Commission, Upper Southampton, Bucks County, PA

Board Memberships

Citizen’s Crime Commission of the Delaware Valley

Dance Parade NYC (Chair)

Costume Cultural Society, Inc. (Chair)