Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Federal Securities Litigation and SEC Enforcement; White Collar Criminal Defense; Anti-Trust Law and Trade Regulation; Environmental Litigation Law School:  New York University School of Law, LL.B., 1965 College: University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Economics, 1962 Email: jlgoldstein@hlgslaw.com

For over 30 years Jonathan L. Goldstein has represented financial institutions, corporations and individual clients in complex business litigation in the federal courts throughout the United States and the state courts in New Jersey. Mr. Goldstein has been selected by his peers to be included in The Best Lawyers in America consecutively since 1999 and has been selected for inclusion since 2005 in New Jersey Super Lawyers in business litigation. Before joining the firm in 1977, Mr. Goldstein served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. While at the Department of Justice, Mr. Goldstein received the U.S. Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award.

Mr. Goldstein has extensive expertise as a trial lawyer and appellate advocate, representing clients in a broad range of matters, including complex commercial litigation, federal securities litigation and SEC enforcement, criminal and regulatory enforcement, antitrust law and trade regulation, oppressed minority shareholder litigation, environmental litigation and family law.

Mr. Goldstein served on the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1983-1992. Chairperson of the Judicial Selection Committee for the United States District Court from 2000-2005. Mr. Goldstein was a member of the Governor’s Advisory Committee.

Mr. Goldstein received the William J. Brennan Award from the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey in 2008. He is a past President and member of the Advisory Board of the Association.

Mr. Goldstein is a member of the Bars of New Jersey and New York, as well as the federal trial and appellate courts in both states, and of the Supreme Court of the United States.