David J. Goldsmith has more than ten years of experience representing institutional and individual investors in securities litigation. Mr. Goldsmith is presently a member of the team representing the New York State Common Retirement Fund and the New York City Pension Funds as lead plaintiffs in a high-profile securities class action against Countrywide Financial Corporation and its auditors and certain underwriters of its securities offerings. Mr. Goldsmith also represents the Genesee County (Mich.) Employees' Retirement System as a lead plaintiff in several securities matters including actions against Spectranetics Corporation, Merck & Co., and CBeyond, Inc., and previously against Transaction Systems Architects, Inc. He was instrumental in achieving a significant settlement in an action alleging stock option backdating at American Tower Corporation, and was a member of the team representing the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds in an action against Waste Management, Inc. that resulted in one of the largest securities class action settlements ever achieved up to that time.

Mr. Goldsmith played a key role in a series of cases alleging that mutual funds sold by Van Kampen, Morgan Stanley and Eaton Vance defrauded investors by overpricing senior loan interests. Mr. Goldsmith obtained a decision in one of these actions excluding before trial certain opinions of a nationally recognized economist who regularly serves as a defense expert in such cases. In 2001, Mr. Goldsmith obtained one of the earliest decisions finding that a class action had been improperly removed under the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1998.

Mr. Goldsmith has lectured frequently on class actions and securities litigation for continuing legal education programs and investment symposia.

During law school, Mr. Goldsmith was managing editor of the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, then a United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.