Background on Daniel Goldberg aka "Wells Report Killer" and more lawyer stuff

Daniel L. Goldberg has a broad commercial litigation practice with a focus on antitrust, intellectual property, and franchise cases, and tries cases and argues appeals in courts around the country. He acts as lead national and regional litigation counsel in complex franchise matters and serves as lead litigation counsel for the New England Patriots and the Boston Red Sox. He has both jury and bench trial experience in a wide variety of cases.

Harvard Law School, 1971, Juris Doctor, Cum Laude
Trinity College, 1968, Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude

• Admissions
  US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
  US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  US District Court for the District of Massachusetts
  US Supreme Court

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Jeffrey Kessler, head of the global antitrust group at Winston & Strawn and co-chair of the firm’s vaunted sports law group, is advising the National Football League Players Association in its role representing Brady on his appeal, along with litigation partner David Greenspan. The two share something in common with Morgan Lewis’ Goldberg in having also both worked at a now-defunct Am Law 100 firm. Kessler and Greenspan led a 60-strong team of Dewey & LeBoeuf litigators to Winston & Strawn three years ago this month.

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robertweathers said:

The selected representations is also interesting reading. Lots of appeals experience in the high courts.

http://www.morganlewis.com/bios/danielgoldberg

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hambone1818 said:

"My boy's wicked smaht"

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• Representing clients being investigated by the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and state antitrust enforcement agencies

• Litigating civil antitrust suits in courts around the U.S. (involving claims of, e.g., monopolization, price-fixing, tying and price discrimination)

• Establishing and implementing antitrust compliance programs for several national clients

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Big-T said:

The NFL should be very worried that Brady & the team are openly working with antitrust lawyers now.

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Wax Frog said:

If we are indeed dealing with a bunch of clowns, then perhaps the word was being deliberately misspelled by forummers all along

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As for the NFL, it remains unclear who will take the lead for the New York-based league as it presumably prepares to defend Paul Weiss’ findings against the scrutiny of Kessler, who has a long track record in taking on league management. The most likely candidate is Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld partner Daniel Nash in Washington, D.C., who usually handles the NFL’s labor and employment disputes. The league paid $4.6 million to Akin Gump during its last fiscal year. (Nash did not respond to a request for comment.)

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Covington & Burling, another longtime NFL legal adviser, could also play a role in any Deflategate-related litigation. The firm, which was paid nearly $8.1 million by the league office last year, is counseling the NFL in a $1 billion salary cap collusion case filed by the NFLPA in 2012 that is close to a resolution after being bounced back to a federal court in Minneapolis by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Paul Tagliabue, a former NFL commissioner now serving as senior of counsel at Covington in Washington, D.C., came back in an advisory role two years ago to vacate Bountygate penalties imposed by the league.

Alas, the days of the NFL’s legal billings being open to the public will soon close. The league announced in late April that it would relinquish its nonprofit status, but not before submitting one final federal tax filing detailing its finances over the past year.

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AndyJohnson said:

Where can I buy a Goldberg jersey?

As an aside, I found his commentary on the Deflator very entertaining and well written. I have a very nice image in my head of a 'large' bodied elderly man tiptoeing through 27 NFL employees on his way to the toilet to try and spill some footballs on the sloped floor and take about 0.02 psi out of them on average, based on the non-logo gauge, or add a little based on the logo gauge.

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AndyJohnson said:

Where can I buy a Goldberg jersey?

As an aside, I found his commentary on the Deflator very entertaining and well written. I have a very nice image in my head of a 'large' bodied elderly man tiptoeing through 27 NFL employees on his way to the toilet to try and spill some footballs on the sloped floor and take about 0.02 psi out of them on average, based on the non-logo gauge, or add a little based on the logo gauge.

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Q: Can Brady win a reduction in the suspension or eliminate the suspension entirely?

A: No. The evidence gathered by attorney Ted Wells for the NFL's investigation is clear and convincing. The text messages between Brady and two Patriots staffers, the disappearance of the Patriots' footballs in the moments before kickoff, the history of similar incidents involving Brady, and Brady's stonewalling of the NFL investigators lead to only one conclusion: Brady was clearly involved in an effort to under-inflate the footballs to give him a competitive edge.

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Big-T said:

The NFL should be very worried that Brady & the team are openly working with antitrust lawyers now.

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robertweathers said:

According to the article, if this goes to Federal Court,the NFL will use these guys.
Another twist

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robertweathers said:

This lawyer is a putz. BSPN is even having lawyers be their mouthpiece.



When paid enough, they'll say anything.

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/12888612/tom-brady-nflpa-cannot-win-appeal-filed-deflategate

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