"Judge Goodman made himself available on an time sensitive matter and provided excellent and thorough insight."
“Judge Goodman had a terrific ability to distill extraordinarily complex matters. The case we had couldn’t have been more contentious and heated – lots of money, very, very complicated legal issues, and they had to apply federal law, state law. Not all arbitrators can do that – not even close. When I’m checking boxes for an arbitrator, I want someone who is very smart and able to analyze complicated legal issues. And I just don’t think you could get a better arbitrator to preside over your matter because he is extremely fair to both the plaintiff’s side and the defendant, and he knows how to run a very efficient trial.”
“Judge Goodman was extremely effective. Some mediators are better than others at coming into the mediation with full knowledge of the facts. He certainly did. There were multiple defendants involved in the matter who were struggling with some tricky issues. I’m still not sure how Judge Goodman was able to navigate that, but he clearly was able to get two parties on the other side, who were at war with one another, to at least focus on their collective issue vis-à-vis my client. He was eventually able to get a good result, and I just didn’t think it was going to be possible, given the dynamics on the other side.”
“Judge Goodman was candid with his opinions in both matters but did a great job of listening to the parties. It makes the clients feel heard, which I think is half the goal in mediation. I think sometimes mediators can come off more aggressively in trying to reach a resolution, but he does a really great job of riding that line. You want to reach a settlement. You want to do that efficiently, but he’s really good at listening to the positions. If you’re in a mediation, there’s usually something going on besides just money. There’s usually a reason the parties aren’t able to reach a resolution on their own, and he did a really good job bringing parties together.”