PRACTICE AREAS

Business Litigation

Product Liability

Brian M. Goodwin has practiced law in Phoenix, Arizona for 38 years. Mr. Goodwin has tried to completion more than 80 jury trials and more than 100 contested matters. He has supervised litigation and administrative matters for clients in 37 states and has appeared for clients in litigated matters in 23 different states.

Mr. Goodwin served as Managing Partner of the Arizona law office from 1986 through 2006 and is a former senior partner of the Lewis and Roca law firm, where he headed the litigation section.

DISTINCTIONS

Listed in Best Lawyers In America for Legal Malpractice Law, Muncipal Law, Products Liability and Personal Injury Litigation.

COMMUNITY AND BAR INVOLVEMENT

American Board of Trial Advocates (1983-present)

Appointed one of 24 Masters in the Sandra Day O'Connor American Inn of Court (1991)

National Institute of Trial Advocacy faculty, teaching national and regional trial practice programs at national law schools (1985-2006)

Maricopa County Bar Association

State Bar of Arizona

Chair, Civil Jury Instructions Committee (1978-1980)

Young Lawyers Section Executive Counsel (1978-1989)

Arizona Association of Defense Counsel Board of Directors (1981-1985)

Arizona Supreme Court Special Committee on Uniform Jury Instructions (1971-1974)

Northwestern University School of Law Executive Committee and Law Board

NOTABLE EXPERIENCE

Mr. Goodwin is also a professionally trained mediator and has served as a judge pro tempore with the Maricopa County Superior Court from 1982 to 2005. He currently conducts private mediations.

Mr. Goodwin has served as president and general counsel for a client restaurant chain and on the Advisory Board of a client insurance company. He is presently on the Board of Directors of UMB Bank of Arizona and is on the Northwestern Univesity School of Law board. Mr. Goodwin has provided expert consulting and expert witness testimony for legal malpractice and liquor liability cases in several states.

Mr. Goodwin has been a guest lecturer, including courtroom demonstrations, at The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, Northwestern University School of Law, and the Arizona State University School of Business Administration. He has also conducted numerous lectures and courtroom demonstrations for the Arizona State and Maricopa County Bar Associations.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Liquor Liability and the Server

A video used throughout the United States to train servers of alcoholic beverages.

Recommended Arizona Jury Instructions (1st edition)

Appointed to panel by the Arizona Supreme Court

December 2002

Alternative Dispute Resolution: New Horizons in ADR

Arizona Attorney

1987 | 1989 | 1999

Informal Witness Investigation

American Bar Association’s Litigation Magazine 1987; and in Litigation Manual 1989 (2nd edition) and 1999 (3rd edition).

EDUCATION

J.D., cum laude, Northwestern University, 1969

B.A., with honors, Miami University, 1966

BAR ADMISSIONS

Arizona, 1970