Michael S Goldberg

Practice Areas

International Arbitration, Litigation, White Collar (FCPA, Environmental).

Career

Mr. Goldberg is the Founder of the firm’s International Dispute Resolution Practice. His practice areas also include Crisis Management, FCPA, Environmental and Intellectual Property. During his forty years of practice, Mr. Goldberg has served as lead counsel in litigation matters as diverse as antitrust/competition, banking/finance, bankruptcy, commercial, construction, corporate acquisitions, defamation, discrimination, energy, environmental, ERISA, FCPA and other criminal investigations, intellectual property, partnership, premises liability, products liability, qui tam, real estate, sports and entertainment, and tax.

Mr. Goldberg's experience extends to a broad array of international matters involving clients, adversaries, and/or issues in Angola, Afghanistan, Armenia, Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Yemen.

Mr. Goldberg has served as general counsel for professional sports teams such as the NBA's Houston Rockets. He has also served as a council member of the Council of Legal Opportunities (CLEO), an organization that works with minority and low-income students to help them prepare for and attend law school. He also sits as an arbitrator and is an Adjunct Professor of International Arbitration at the University of Texas School of Law.

Professional Memberships

State Bars of New York and Texas; Board Certified, Civil Trial Law, Texas; United States Supreme Court; London Court of International Arbitration; Institute for Transnational Arbitration.

Publications

IBA - Advocacy: the dos and don'ts on which senior judges and arbitrators agree and disagree, Panelist, November 2020

Social and Criminal Justice and the Death Penalty, Moderator, Texas Defender Service Light of Justice Virtual Luncheon, October 2020

IEL-ILT 2nd Energy Industry Intellectual Property Law Conference, Panel Moderator, Addressing IP Issues in the Alternate Dispute Resolution World, March 2018

Applying to U.S. Courts to Take Evidence in Aid of Arbitration (Section 1782), Practising Law Institute, June 2017

Effective Advocacy in International Arbitration, Practising Law Institute, June 2017

2017 Baker Botts Arbitration Report - Issue 1, June 2017

How to Protect Your IP Assets in a Technology Divorce, Panel Discussion, March 2017

Improving Dispute Resolution in the International Oil & Gas Business, Panelist, AIPN's Dispute Resolution in the International Oil & Gas Business Conference, October 2016

International Dispute Resolution Workshop, National Institute for Trial Advocacy Training (NITA), August 2016

Institute for Transnational Arbitration, Co-Chair of the Friday Forum, 28th Annual ITA Workshop, June 2016

English Commercial Court Applies Russian Law To Join Non-Signatory Parent Entity To Arbitration Proceedings, International Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Update, January 2016

Keystone XL Litigation Could Rewrite Trade Deals, January 2016

Bloomberg BNA Litigation Practice Portfolio Series No. 652, January 2016

Oil and Gas Technology Disputes, Moderator, June 2015

Cuba in Transition - Business Engagement Strategy, Georgetown University and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Conference, April 2015

Baker Botts Trial Lawyers Secure Billion Dollar Defense Win in a Nearly Decade Long Legal Battle, February 6, 2015

ITA-IEL Forum, Panel Moderator, 2nd Annual ITA-IEL Joint Conference on International Energy Arbitration, January 2015

Personal

JD (with honors), University of Texas, 1982;

BA (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Rice University, 1979.