(Los Angeles, CA)—Dickstein Shapiro is pleased to welcome Stephen Goldberg to the firm’s Los Angeles office as partner in the Insurance Coverage Practice. Mr. Goldberg will focus his practice on litigating and resolving a wide range of insurance recovery matters.

“I am thrilled to have Steve join our Los Angeles office,” said Kirk Pasich, partner in the Insurance Coverage Practice and member of the firm’s executive committee. “His immeasurable experience in complex insurance coverage matters will be an asset to our clients and a tremendous complement to our existing practice.”

Mr. Goldberg’s more than 30 years of civil litigation practice span the full spectrum of complex insurance matters. He has handled a wide range of insurance coverage matters, including matters relating to product liability, asbestos, environmental damage, property damage and business interruption losses, and directors and officers liability, with disputes stretching into the billions of dollars. Mr. Goldberg’s high profile case work includes the representation of the senior lessee of the World Trade Center towers in litigation arising from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, for which his client recovered more than $500 million. Mr. Goldberg is nationally known for his work in the insurance coverage arena, and has been recognized in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and The Best Lawyers in America as one of the top insurance coverage lawyers in California and in the nation.

“Moving to Dickstein Shapiro is an exciting and wonderful opportunity for me,” said Mr. Goldberg. “I am equally as thrilled to join Dickstein Shapiro’s impressive nationwide policyholder coverage practice as I am to be doing so in its vibrant Los Angeles office and working with attorneys whom, in some cases, I have known for as long as 25 years.”

Mr. Goldberg joins Dickstein Shapiro from Heller Ehrman LLP, where he was a shareholder and member of the Insurance Recovery and Complex Commercial Litigation practice groups. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. Mr. Goldberg formerly clerked for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Dickstein Shapiro’s premier Insurance Coverage Practice represents insureds around the country in disputes with insurance carriers. More than 90 of the firm’s attorneys devote the majority of their time to insurance coverage matters. Dickstein Shapiro’s Insurance Coverage attorneys have recovered billions of dollars on behalf of their clients through settlements and litigation throughout the country.

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Related Employee(s): Kirk A. Pasich
Related Practice(s): Insurance Coverage