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Allen S. Goldberg
Allen S. Goldberg is a retired American judge who served on the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois for 20 years. He headed the creation of a court-annexed mediation program in the Circuit court, and also served as a business court judge in the Law Division's Commercial Calendar. Judicial serviceGoldberg was elected as a judge to the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois in 1992, and reelected in 1998, 2004, and 2010. He retired in 2013.[1] The Circuit Court of Cook County is a state trial level court of general jurisdiction.[2] Goldberg served in the circuit court's Domestic Relations Division for seven years. He spent 10 years as a Commercial Calendar judge, and in his final years on the bench, he handled jury trials in the circuit court's Law Division.[3][4] Goldberg was succeeded by Jerry Esrig.[5] The Commercial Calendar is a specialized business court within the circuit court's Law Division, with a jurisdiction focused solely on commercial disputes.[6] It is one of the oldest business court programs in the United States, having first become operational in 1993.[7] Goldberg served as a Commercial Calendar judge from 2000 to 2011.[1] Nationally, Goldberg is a past president of the American College of Business Court Judges,[8] and in 2005 he participated in the first meeting of the American College of Business Court Judges, co-sponsored by the Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute.[9] He served as a Business Court Representative to the American Bar Association's Business Law Section.[10] A court-annexed civil mediation program was created in the Cook County Circuit court's Law Division in 2004. Goldberg "led a 60-member committee that spent more than nine months drafting rules governing mediation."[11][12][13] In 2005, Circuit court Judge Michael S. Jordan,[14] chair of the Illinois State Bar Association's Section on Alternative Dispute Resolutions, stated that the court-annexed mediation program was under Goldberg's supervision and responsibility.[15] That program still exists (as of August 2024), and is made available to a variety of different case types actionable in the Law Division, providing the litigants with an "opportunity to explore settlement alternatives with a highly trained and experienced mediator."[16] Among examples of notable cases in which Goldberg presided as judge: a suit by singer James Brown against Corbis Corp., a company founded by Bill Gates, over the use of Brown's photos on the internet,[17] an election fraud dispute brought by Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.,[18] a dispute between Archipelago Holdings Inc. founder and Chief Executive Gerald Putnam and Fane Lozman,[19][20] a suit between the Chicago Transit Authority and American Bus Industries, Inc. over the sale of hundreds of allegedly defective buses,[21] and a retaliatory discharge suit by Paul Liska against Motorola, Inc.[22] Legal practiceAfter graduating law school, Goldberg spent a short time in private legal practice before joining the Legal Aid Bureau of the Office of Economic Development until 1970.[1] He next went to work for the Cook County Public Defender's Office, where he spent 21 years. He eventually became chief of its felony trial division.[1][3] As head of the felony division, he supervised 150 lawyers.[4] EducationGoldberg received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in 1964, and a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law in 1967.[3] Positions and honorsGoldberg has served in the following positions or received the following honors, among others;
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