About Jennifer Goldstein
Jennifer B. Goldstein has devoted her legal practice to complex civil litigation in areas including medical malpractice, sexual abuse and exploitation, municipal torts and wrongful death. Her clients include individuals who have suffered catastrophic injury, sexual abuse or discrimination, bullying or institutional neglect, traumatic brain injury and medical malpractice. A key focus of Ms. Goldstein's work has been to represent individuals pursuing claims against institutional defendants, including boarding schools or the Boy Scouts of America for childhood sexual abuse, municipalities and school systems for failure to protect students from bullying, and national nursing home corporations for injuries to elderly residents. Ms. Goldstein previously practiced law at prominent firms in Connecticut and New York, including Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where her practice focused primarily on complex commercial litigation.
Proven verdicts and settlements
A 15-year-old Greenwich High School sophomore died by suicide on August 27, 2013, the first day of the school year, after more than four years of bullying at Western Middle School and the high school. His parents sued the Town of Greenwich and its Board of Education in 2015, alleging staff knew about more than 25 bullying reports and never followed the district's mandatory anti-bullying policy. After the Appellate Court rejected the board's sovereign immunity defense in 2018 and the Supreme Court declined review, the town agreed in February 2023 to pay $5 million weeks before jury selection, the largest school bullying settlement by a Connecticut municipality.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
