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Goldenberg LLP

New York Litigation Counsel

Goldenberg LLP represents businesses, owners, developers, condominium and cooperative boards, sponsors, lenders, employers, employees, and individuals in commercial, real estate and construction, and employment disputes throughout New York, and advises owners, investors, and family offices on commercial real estate ventures, acquisitions, and financings. Every matter is handled directly by a senior lawyer of the firm, from first assessment through resolution.

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We know the system and who’s across the table.

Our firm was founded by brothers Joel L. Goldenberg and Daniel R. Goldenberg, New York litigators who have represented developers, owners, lenders, and employers, and litigated against them and their counsel. We know the courts, the procedure, and the lawyers on the other side: where a case has leverage, when to press, and when to finesse.

As brothers, we pair seamless coordination with relentless execution to achieve your goals.

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Practices

Four focused practices.

  1. Commercial Litigation

    Contract, partnership, shareholder, control, and fiduciary disputes for businesses and the people who own them.

  2. Real Estate & Construction Litigation

    Disputes over the sale, development, construction, and ownership of New York property, where timing decides the outcome.

  3. Employment Litigation

    For employees, employers, and business owners, individually and in class and collective actions.

  4. Commercial Real Estate Ventures

    Deal counsel to owners, investors, and family offices on acquisitions, joint ventures, and structured financings.

Beyond New York, we litigate through established local counsel in New Jersey, Connecticut, California, Florida, Texas, and elsewhere across the country.

Our approach

Litigation requires judgment early.

The most important decisions in a dispute are often made before the first motion is filed: what to preserve, what to demand, which claims matter, and whether the case should be resolved, narrowed, or fought. We set a clear legal and practical strategy at the outset and pursue the result the matter requires, through negotiation, motion practice, trial, appeal, or enforcement.

Attorneys

Joel L. Goldenberg

FOUNDING PARTNERLITIGATION

Joel’s practice centers on employment litigation. He represents employees, executives, and employers in wage-and-hour, overtime, misclassification, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims, individually and in class and collective actions, and has handled hundreds of them. He brings the same rigor to commercial and real estate disputes, from collection actions to emergency injunctions, in the New York State courts and the federal courts of the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York.

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Daniel R. Goldenberg

FOUNDING PARTNERLITIGATION

Daniel is a commercial litigator for the people who build, own, finance, and operate New York real estate: owners, developers, sponsors, condominium and co-op boards, lenders, management companies, hoteliers, and contractors. His practice spans commercial and construction disputes, construction-defect and offering-plan claims, leases and Yellowstone injunctions, contracts of sale and specific performance, and bankruptcy court proceedings, and he counsels not-for-profit and religious corporations on governance. He has tried cases to jury verdict in the New York courts.

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J. Spencer Hoffman

OF COUNSELTRANSACTIONS & CORPORATE

Spencer is deal counsel for commercial real estate: acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, CMBS and structured financings, historic tax credit and tax equity transactions, and commercial leasing. He has represented some of New York City’s most active retail and mixed-use owners, and serves as outside and fractional general counsel to family offices in New York City and across the Northeast.

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Global counsel network

The network began with Daniel’s work on the restitution of Holocaust-era art and property to Jewish families and their heirs, which required counsel in each country concerned. The firm introduces clients, and lawyers who approach it, to counsel and advisers abroad; any engagement is made directly with that counsel or adviser.

Lawyers and advisers introduced by the firm are independent and not affiliated with Goldenberg LLP. Please do not send confidential information; a message does not create an attorney-client relationship.