James L. Goldman - Lawyer in Los Angeles, CA

James Goldman has represented clients intrials and appeals in state and federal courts, regulatory proceedings(involving the Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Home Loan BankBoard, California and Arizona State Boards of Accountancy, Federal TradeCommission, California Department of Corporations, NYSE, NASD, and FINRA), arbitrations and mediations. His practicehas focused on complex commercial litigation.

Goldman successfully defended an accountingfirm in one of the largest securities class actions ever to have been tried, asdescribed in Dillion and Cannon, Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the LawyerWho Brought Corporate America to its Knees (Random House 2010). He has alsoserved as defense counsel in securities actions involving American ContinentalCorp./Lincoln Savings, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Financial Corp. of America,McCulloch Oil Corp., Republic Corp., Columbia Pictures, New WorldEntertainment, Inc., Live Entertainment, Inc., Carolco Pictures, Inc.Childrens Wonderland, Inc., Aura Systems, Inc., Chantal Pharmaceutical Corp.,Destination Films, Inc., Entropin, Inc., Budget Furniture Rentals, Inc., CannonFilm Group, Inc., and Apparel Technologies, Inc. He also has an extensive real estate practice,including litigation concerning foreclosures, work-outs, environmental andconservation issues, purchase/sale agreements, title issues, easements, eminentdomain issues, construction contracts for public and private projects,construction defect litigation, leases/landlord-tenant issues, financingtransactions, joint ventures/partnerships, and foreclosures/work-outs,professional liability claims (e.g., claims against lawyers, accountants,brokers, asset managers, and construction design professionals.

Goldmanhas been named to U.S. News Best Lawyers inAmerica? forhis real estate practice since 2013, has been regularly selected as a SouthernCalifornia Super Lawyer?,and was awarded the highest possible Martindale-Hubbell Peer ReviewRating, AV? Preeminent??.Goldmanhas served as President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Federal BarAssociation, a member of its Executive Board, a member of the Board ofGovernors of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers, and a member of theLitigation Sections of the American Bar Association and the State Bar ofCalifornia. He has also served on the editorial boards of Class ActionReports and Los Angeles Lawyer.