Phil Goldberg Email and Phone Number

Phil Goldberg, a member of Shook’s Washington, D.C.-based Public Policy Group, has more than two decades of experience on liability-related public policy, public affairs and public relations issues. Phil assists clients address important litigation issues outside of the trial courts, often in front of Congress, state legislatures, appellate courts and the media. Phil focuses his practice on three areas:• Development of the Common Law• Federal and State Legislation• Litigation CommunicationsAs co-chair of Shook’s National Amicus Practice, Phil has filed amicus briefs with courts at every level, from the U.S. Supreme Court to the U.S. Courts of Appeals and state appellate courts. He also has testified before state legislatures, authored legal scholarship, and spoken at judicial and attorney conferences on some of the highest profile liability issues in the last decade. In 2015, he was named the Director of the Progressive Policy Institute’s Civil Justice Center. The substantive issues Phil works on tend to impact repetitive or high-profile cases, and often involve unwise expansions of liability based on novel tort and product liability theories. In particular, he has worked extensively on public nuisance theory, pharmaceutical liability issues, patent litigation reform, international biotechnology liability policy, climate change tort litigation, liability in asbestos cases and damages in animal injury claims.Phil is a member of the American Law Institute and received Shook's Mosaic Award for his commitment to diversity in the legal profession.Before joining Shook, Phil was an aide to three Democratic members of Congress and vice president of litigation communications for two leading public relations firms. He received his law degree from George Washington University Law School, where he was Order of the Coif, and his bachelor of arts, cum laude, from Tufts University.