Barbara DeCrow Goldberg is a partner of Mauro Goldberg & Lilling LLP, a firm focusing its practice on Litigation Strategy and Appellate Advocacy. Ms. Goldberg is known for her appellate expertise in high exposure and complex cases. Since joining MGL in 1997, she has handled hundreds of significant motions and appeals in State and Federal Courts, and is noted for several important decisions in the areas of medical malpractice, negligence, workers compensation and labor law. Included in this group are Lee v. Astoria Generating Co., L.P., 13 N.Y.3d 382 (2009)(holding that the plaintiff’s Labor Law claims were pre-empted by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act); Arons v. Jutkowitz, 8 N.Y.3d 393 (2007)(holding that plaintiffs could be compelled to authorize defense counsel to conduct ex parte, off-the-record interviews with non-party treating physicians); French v. Schiavo, 63 A.D.3d 403 (1st Dept. 2009)(allowing $3 million in collateral source set-offs based on past and future disability payments); DeCrescenzo v. Gonzalez, 46 A.D.3d 607 (2nd Dept. 2007)(reversing $14 million judgment and ordering new trial based on trial court’s disparate treatment of parties and allowing use of juror affidavits to correct error by jury in recording verdict); and Castro v. United Container Machinery Group, Inc., 96 N.Y.2d 398 (2001)(adopting strict interpretation of “grave injury” under Workers’ Compensation Law § 11).

Ms. Goldberg is also known for her expertise regarding New York’s structured judgment provisions, CPLR Articles 50-A and 50-B. She submitted an amicus brief to the New York Court of Appeals in Desiderio v. Ochs, 100 N.Y.2d 159 (2003), a case involving a severely neurologically impaired infant plaintiff, which prompted the passage of the current version of CPLR Article 50-A.

Prior to joining MGL, Ms. Goldberg headed the Appeals Department at New York City’s Martin, Clearwater & Bell, a firm specializing in the defense of physicians and hospitals. She was also associated with Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C. and was an Assistant District Attorney in Queens County where she worked in the Appeals Division. Ms. Goldberg is a member of the OCA’s Advisory Committee on Civil Practice. She has published in the areas of medical malpractice, post-verdict practice and appellate practice, as well as lecturing at continuing legal education programs and educating industry professionals and attorneys regarding the current CPLR Article 50-A. Ms. Goldberg is a magna cum laude graduate of Radcliffe College and obtained her Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law, where she graduated cum laude.