Jennifer B. Goldstein

Jennifer B. Goldstein is a graduate of Yale College and The University of Chicago Law School, and is a partner at Silver Golub & Teitell LLP in Stamford, Connecticut.  In her work, she seeks to utilize the law to hold institutional and private defendants to account for their failure to protect those under their care, and to represent those who have suffered life-altering injuries. Ms. Goldstein has been able to secure millions of dollars in compensation for her clients and has helped to bring about important institutional change.

A key focus of Ms. Goldstein’s work has been to represent individuals pursuing claims against institutional defendants. Such claims have included actions against defendants such as boarding schools or the Boy Scouts of America for childhood sexual abuse or exploitation; municipalities and school systems for failure to protect students from bullying or physical injury, or failure to provide mandated special education services; municipalities and towns for sexual harassment against public employees; and national nursing home corporations for injuries to elderly residents. Ms. Goldstein recently settled a claim against the Town of Greenwich and its Board of Education for their systemic failure to comply with their mandatory anti-bullying policy, which resulted in a student committing suicide. The settlement of $5 million is believed to be the largest amount paid by a municipal school system in a bullying case in Connecticut.  Ms. Goldstein has also represented police officers in actions involving the exercise of a union member’s constitutional rights to free speech and free association as well as a police officer’s right to be compensated for on-the-job injuries.  In an appeal successfully briefed and argued by Ms. Goldstein, the Connecticut Supreme Court held that police officers and firefighters may bring negligence lawsuits against third party tortfeasors to recover for injuries sustained in the performance of duty; this decision granted to Connecticut police officers and firefighters a right that was previously extended to other public employees, but often withheld from public safety officers.  Ms. Goldstein also regularly represents clients who have been seriously injured by medical malpractice or other types of negligence.

Ms. Goldstein is admitted to the bars of the States of Connecticut and New York, as well as to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, and has been named as a winner in the Connecticut Law Tribune Personal Injury Hall of Fame Winner: Intentional Tort Category.