Michael Goettig
Associate
T: +1 (212) 407 7781
F: +1 (212) 407 7799
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New York
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Michael Goettig joined Vedder Price’s New York office in 2007. An Associate in the Litigation and Labor and Employment practice areas, Mr. Goettig represents clients on matters ranging from employee benefit plans and collective bargaining agreements to corporate contract disputes and general litigation matters.
While in law school, he was the Editor in Chief of the Columbia Journal of Asian Law and participated in the school’s litigation-intensive Environmental Law Clinic. He competed in the Jerome Michael Mock Jury Competition and spent the summer following his first year of law school working with the ABA’s Asia Law Initiative in Beijing. While at Columbia, he was a Research Assistant in a course addressing China’s rapidly changing legal environment in such fields as securities litigation, administrative law and foreign investment.
Mr. Goettig lived in southwest China as a Peace Corps volunteer, freelance journalist, and businessman before enrolling in law school. He has published articles in a number of regional periodicals, including the South China Morning Post, the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Asian edition of Time. During his time in China, he became proficient in Mandarin Chinese. An avid runner, Michael has completed several marathons.
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- J.D., Columbia Law School, 2007 (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) (Recipient, Parker School of International and Comparative Law Certificate of Recognition)
- B.A., with distinction, University of Minnesota, 1993
- New Jersey, 2007
- New York, 2008
- Minnesota, 2010
- US District Court of New Jersey, 2007
- US District Court, Southern District of New York, 2008
- US District Court, Eastern District of New York, 2008
- US Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 2010
- US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2011
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