Daniel F. Goldstein Partner 410-962-1030 dfg@browngold.com

Areas of Practice:
Mr. Goldstein is a trial lawyer whose practice includes commercial litigation, criminal defense, professional malpractice,defense of professional licenses, and public interest litigation.

Statement:
"What makes the practice of law satisfying is getting the client the desired result."

Significant Cases:
Mr. Goldstein has initiated a national legal campaign on behalf of the National Federation of the Blind to ensure that new technology is usable by the blind. His suit on the Federation's behalf against America Online resulted in an agreement to make the next version of AOL accessible to the blind. Additional efforts, in partnership with the Connecticut Attorney General, have required a number of web sites to alter their designs to make them usable by the blind. His lawsuits against banks and ATM operators have helped make more widespread voice-prompted ATMs.

Mr. Goldstein's civil practice has included representing both plaintiffs and defendants in complex commercial cases. He has also successfully brought cases under a variety of civil rights laws, including a Fair Housing Act case against a segregated housing complex and another that successfully challenged a city's practice of arresting for trespass legitimate visitors to public housing tenants.

In his criminal defense practice, Mr. Goldstein usually represents professionals and business men and women. He successfully prevented the prosecution of a target of one of the independent counsels. Mr. Goldstein takes special pleasure in having represented twenty-three rabbis who, when protesting the treatment of Soviet Jews, were arrested under a D.C. ordinance prohibiting "illegal congregation" within fifty feet of an embassy.

Biography:
After clerking for the Honorable Frank A. Kaufman of the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and working briefly in private practice, Mr. Goldstein served as an Assistant United States Attorney from 1976 to 1982. In May 1982, he began private practice and entered into a partnership shortly thereafter that is today Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP. Outside of work, Mr. Goldstein has served a variety of roles at the Waldorf School of Baltimore, an independent school, where he has been president of the board and shepherded the school through its acquisition of a campus and construction of a new building.

Mr. Goldstein's only publications, for the Texas Law Review, were arcane when they were written and are long since obsolete.

Education:

	J.D., University of Texas School of Law, 1973; graduated with high honors, Order of the Coif
	A.B., Amherst College,1969; graduated cum laude