Carl E. Goldfarb

Partner
Fort Lauderdale

t: 954 356 0011
f: 954 356 0022

cgoldfarb@bsfllp.com

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Areas of Practice

Litigation

Antitrust

Class Actions

Intellectual Property

International Arbitration

Education

Yale Law School, J.D., 1995; Michael Egger Price, Potter Stewart Prize

Yale University, B.A., summa cum laude, English, Philosophy, 1979; Phi Beta Kappa

Language Spoken

Spanish

Clerkships

Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 1995-1996

Admissions

New Jersey and Florida

Carl Goldfarb's main practice area is complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on antitrust and intellectual property cases, class actions, appellate litigation, and constitutional law.

At Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Mr. Goldfarb has represented a leading produce company in trade secret, trademark, and a series of antitrust actions; the seller of a technology business in a two-month arbitration; and a major tobacco corporation in antitrust litigation. Mr. Goldfarb has also represented defendants and consumers in class action litigation, and has provided pro bono representation in a number of cases. Mr. Goldfarb is fluent in Spanish and has significant experience in litigation that has a nexus to Latin America.

Prior to joining Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, Mr. Goldfarb served on the Appellate Staff with the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. While at the Department, he argued more than a dozen cases in the United States Court of Appeals and drafted several Supreme Court briefs for the Office of the Solicitor General. Mr. Goldfarb also worked as a reporter for several daily newspapers and was one of twelve Miami Herald reporters to contribute to a staff Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for breaking news.

At Yale Law School, he served as an Editor of the Yale Law Review and won the Michael Egger Prize for the best note in the Yale Law Journal. Mr. Goldfarb also shared the Potter Stewart Prize for the best moot court argument.

Mr. Goldfarb serves on the Board of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center and chairs the Development Committee.

Selected Professional Awards and Associations

American Bar Association
Florida Bar Association

Selected Publications

Allocating the Local Apportionment Pie; What Portion Should Legal Resident Aliens Receive?, 104 Yale Law Review Journal 1441 (1995)