David Goldstein

David J. Goldstein is chair of Littler’s OFCCP Practice Group and Government Contractors Industry Group.  David’s practice is devoted to assisting employers with the implementation and maintenance of effective affirmative action programs and representing government contractors before the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), as well as similar state and local agencies.  Based on his knowledge and experience in this area, David has provided testimony to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and been interviewed by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in connection with its reviews of OFCCP.

Because affirmative action programs implicate all employment related practices and policies as well as a wide array of laws and regulations, David’s clients benefit from his more than 35 years of experience as a trial lawyer and counselor. He has worked with in-house counsel, business leadership, and HR professionals to proactively identify and implement creative solutions for complying with employment related legal and regulatory requirements, avoiding liability, and resolving internal and external disputes. His experience includes representing employers in trials before federal and state courts and administrative agencies, including class action litigation. David also frequently works with mediation and other dispute-resolution techniques in order to efficiently resolve disputes.

David’s clients include health care providers, manufacturers, construction companies, colleges and universities, and professional sports organizations.

David was an elected member of the Edina School Board from 2014 through 2017 and has served on the boards of the Minnesota Twins Community Fund, Twin Cities Rise! (an anti-poverty program for men of color and other adults living in generational poverty), and Jungle Theater (a neighborhood theater with national impact).  His pro-bono legal activities have included work with Teach for America, MEDA (assisting businesses owned and managed by ethnic minorities), the Midwest Minority Supplier Development Council, the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the Volunteer Lawyers Network.  David has also coached youth baseball at many levels and given scores of presentations to elementary school students about the solar system and space travel as a participant in the Solar System Ambassador program sponsored by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  David has a B.A. from Haverford College (Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.  While in law school he taught freshman economics at Harvard College.