Adam Goldberg, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office, co-leads the firm's Public Strategies and Crisis Practice, the nation’s leading practice advising clients on the ways in which business, government, the media and the law intersect. This includes counseling clients on positioning themselves on public policy issues and counseling them on government relations and public affairs campaigns; on regulatory, congressional, and criminal investigations; on crisis prevention, mitigation, and response for high-profile matters; and on transactions.
He is a strategic advisor and advocate for corporations, individuals, and state and local governments on matters spanning industries and geography, including the financial, technology, education, hedge fund, private equity, pharmaceutical, personal genetics testing, hospitality, tribal and telecommunications sectors. This work has entailed educating policymakers and regulators about clients’ businesses and relevant public policy issues; defending them against litigants, regulators, and third parties; working with the media, grass-roots groups, or the government in connection with other legal matters; and building support or opposition to transactions.
Mr. Goldberg served in the White House as Special Associate Counsel to the President from 1996 to 1999, providing advice on political strategy and crisis communications for the campaign finance, Monica Lewinsky, technology transfer and other investigations. Serving as a White House spokesman on such issues, Mr. Goldberg worked on congressional, Department of Justice and independent counsel inquiries. Before the White House, he began his career as a lobbyist at a Washington, D.C., law firm and then served as the Director of Rapid Response for Special Projects for the Democratic National Committee during the 1996 presidential campaign.
Representative matters include the following.
- Advising a major movie studio on the positioning of a feature film and its accompanying media and advocacy-group scrutiny.
- Representing a major accounting firm on a variety of high-profile litigation issues and a congressional investigation.
- Representing private equity firms on high-profile litigation issues and on a congressional investigation.
- Helping create and execute a legal, legislative and media strategy to oppose the Federal Trade Commission's efforts to thwart a leading national retailer’s merger with a competitor.
- Representing a multinational financial institution on public policy and government relations issues in connection with U.S. and foreign financial regulatory reform.
- Representing an international cruise line in connection with extensive media coverage, litigation and congressional hearings regarding the accidental death of a ship's passenger on a cruise and industry-wide public positioning.
- Advising emerging and established technology and other companies on privacy, data breach, intellectual property disputes and other high-profile matters.
- Representing a leading personal genetic-testing company on public policy issues and congressional and GAO investigations into the industry.
- Representing one of the nation’s largest Indian tribes in high-stakes, multi-venue litigation on sovereign immunity and citizenship issues and on related media and congressional scrutiny.
- Helping clients create and execute a legislative and communications strategy for Congress and the U.S. and international media to support the Honduran government that succeeded the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya.
- Representing corporate officers, corporate in-house counsel and elected officials regarding high-profile government and congressional ethics investigations.
Mr. Goldberg is an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School, where he teaches a class on crisis management and communications. He also lectures on related topics frequently to different audiences. Mr. Goldberg is the co-author of published articles on congressional investigations and crisis management, and is a commentator on national television and in major print and online publications for political, legal and crisis current events.
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