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Email: jgoldfed@law.upenn.edu
Bio
Jerry H. Goldfeder, Special Counsel at Stroock, is a prominent election lawyer with over thirty years of trial and appellate experience. His practice includes representing elected officials,candidates for public office, unions, partnerships and corporations in the areas ofcampaign finance, voting rights and public integrity investigations andprosecutions; it also includes representing individuals and organizations on abroad range of governmental matters.
Prior to joining Stroock, Mr. Goldfeder served as Special Counsel to New YorkState Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, where his portfolio included publicintegrity matters. Before joining Attorney General Cuomo's office in 2007, Mr.Goldfeder was in private practice, focusing on election law and campaign financecompliance. He also served as Special Counsel to the New York State SenateDemocratic Conference under then-Senator David A. Paterson from 2003 to 2004.
He is the author of the treatise Goldfeder's Modern Election Law, now in its Second Edition, which has been favorably reviewed by The New York Times, the New York Law Journal, Election Law Journal and the New York State Bar Association Journal. His other scholarship can be found here.
He teaches Election Law as a Lecturer-in-Law at theUniversity of Pennsylvania Law School and as an Adjunct Professor at FordhamLaw School. He regularly lectures on "How to Decide an Election Case" to the Justices and attorneys of the Appellate Division, Second Department. Mr.Goldfeder also chairs the Election Law and Government Affairs Committee of theGeneral Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association. He has written onelection-related topics for the Fordham Urban Law Journal, the New York Law Journal and The New York Times, and regularly appears in the media as anelection and campaign finance expert. He has also taught Election Law and Ethicsin numerous CLE courses. Before entering private practice, he was Law Secretaryto Samuel J. Silverman of the Appellate Division, First Department.
Prior to being admitted to the bar, Mr. Goldfeder studied and taught political science.
Mr. Goldfeder was recently named a “New York Influencer” by Campaigns & Elections in September 2010.
He recently served on Attorney General-elect Eric Schneiderman’s Transition
Team.
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