Judith Olans Brown Forum Practitioner-in-Residence: Carrie Goldberg

Carrie Goldberg, founder of leading victims’ rights law firm C.A. Goldberg, has been named by Northeastern Law’s Judith Olans Brown Forum for Women in the Law (WIL) as its Practitioner-in-Residence for 2024-2025. Goldberg will visit the law school for three days, from November 13 to 15, 2024. While in residence at Northeastern, Goldberg will share her experiences fighting for survivors of sexual violence and representing victims of catastrophic injuries caused by tech giants. Her visit will include class lectures, meetings with groups such as the school’s Women’s Law Caucus, and she will hold office hours to build personal connections with students, graduates, staff and faculty.

Goldberg’s firm leads the nation in landmark cases challenging Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects internet platforms from lawsuits over content posted by their users. As lead counsel in Herrick v. Grindr, she introduced the novel legal approach of applying product liability law to dangerous tech products. In A.M. v. Omegle, the firm’s advocacy resulted in a new precedent in the realm of product liability and sex trafficking, the first case to overcome Section 230 where the plaintiff sued a platform for injuries caused by a malicious user. The firm also overcame Section 230 immunity in January 2024 against Snap for its role in fentanyl deaths in Neville, et al. v Snap and is appealing to the 9th Circuit in Doe v. Grindr relating to the foreseeable child rapes caused from the app marketing to children. Goldberg is lead counsel for 23 families suing Amazon for selling suicide kits to their children and has been an advocate around the country to regulate household sales of the chemical. Goldberg also serves on the plaintiff steering committee in multi-district litigation against Snap, Google, TikTok and Meta regarding the platforms designing products intended to addict children.

C.A. Goldberg’s clients include former Congresswoman Katie Hill and five Harvey Weinstein accusers, including Lucia Evans, whose accusations helped launch the #MeToo movement and resulted in Weinstein’s arrest. Some of the firm’s proudest successes, though, are the ones that stay out of the headlines: recoveries for adult survivors of child sexual abuse and restraining orders for A-list celebrities against their stalkers. In K.M. v. City of New York, C.A. Goldberg achieved the highest known recovery in a Title IX case in New York City.

Goldberg’s advocacy for victims of nonconsensual porn is featured in the documentary Netizens and her work is profiled in The New Yorker,  Elle,  Cosmo, Wired,  Glamour and more. She is the author of Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs & Trolls, a 2019 New York Times Editor’s Choice.A fictionalized series about Goldberg and the firm is in development. Goldberg attended Vassar College and Brooklyn Law School.

“We’re thrilled to have Carrie Goldberg join us our Brown Forum Practitioner-in-Residence,” said Mielle Marquis, director of alumni/ae engagement and initiatives, and co-founder of the Brown Forum for Women in the Law. “Her victims’ rights work at the intersection of sex, privacy and tech liability is making a critical difference in the lives of women and vulnerable people across the nation. We look forward to hearing more about how her personal experiences led her to focus on protecting women from stalking, harassment, sexual abuse, and horrific tech-facilitated injuries.”

Previous Practitioners-in-Residence include the Honorable Anita Earls, associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, Debra Katz, a founding partner of Katz Banks Kumin, whose notable clients include Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, and Bridget Amiri ’99, deputy director of the ACLU’s Reproductive Freedom Project.

The 17th annual Brown Forum for Women in the Law Conference will take place on May 2, 2025.