Michael Goldstein, Esq.

Adjunct Professor of Law

Biography

Michael H. Goldstein has more than forty years of experience in reinsurance and insurance coverage dispute resolution, including more than fifty arbitration hearings to award, trials, and appeals throughout the United States representing insurers, cedants, and reinsurers. Mr. Goldstein will begin teaching at his alma mater, Fordham Law School, in the Spring of 2025. He teaches Risky Business: Insurance Law and Practice.

Experience

Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP
New York, New York
Associate/ Partner/Senior Counsel

40 years as trial lawyer/litigator in insurance and reinsurance
Over 50 reinsurance arbitrations to award as first or second chair
Several Landmark Decisions in U.S. District Courts and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals

Bar Admissions

NYS 1980
SDNY 1981
D. Conn 2014
United States Courts of Appeal for Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth Circuit

Honors

ARIAS-US Certified Arbitrator
Super Lawyers
Best Lawyers
Who’s Who Insurance and Reinsurance Thought Leaders
Martindale-Hubbell AV-rated

Speaking Engagements/Lecturing

Defense Research Institute
AIRROC
REINSURANCE Association of America
Mealeys Reinsurance Roundtable
IRUA
In-House CLE 25 Years

Education

Columbia College, BA 1976
FLS, JD 1979