Phil Goldberg

Phil Goldberg is an attorney at Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP in the firm’s Washington, D.C.-based Public Policy Group. From 1993 through 2000, he was a staff member to three Democratic Members of Congress, including Rep. Steve Rothman (NJ), when Mr. Rothman served on the House Judiciary Committee.


Recent Articles by Phil Goldberg

How Litigators Tried to Sneak a Pet Earmark into Health Reform

November 23, 2009
by Phil Goldberg

As the full Senate debate over health care reform legislation finally gets under way following Saturday’s vote, Democratic leaders in Congress should continue fending off special-interest amendments that could be added to what promises to be an enormous piece of legislation. One such provision almost made it into a House committee’s bill earlier this year: a “litigation earmark,” as some in the business community termed it, that had nothing to do with improving America’s health care or cutting health costs but would have opened the door to speculative, mass litigations against American businesses.

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