After a highly successful career as a litigator, Craig Goldenfarb’s primary focus is building teams that directly manage client cases and overseeing the firm’s largest cases. He still oversees pre-suit and litigation matters that involve significant loss, such as catastrophic injury, medical malpractice and wrongful death cases.

Goldenfarb is an active national speaker to community organizations, lawyers, and other legal professionals on a variety of topics including personal injury law, civil litigation, and the justice system. He is the founder of several charitable causes, including the Emanuel McMiller Scholarship for Higher Education and Heart of the Game (HOTG). HOTG provides free Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) to community and youth athletic associations across the country, which have saved the lives of young athletes who have experienced Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) while on the field.

Raised in Clearwater, Florida, Goldenfarb earned his undergraduate degree at Duke University, where he briefly played NCAA Division I soccer. Motivated to pursue a career in law by his mother, Sondra, who was a Harvard Law School grad, and the 1st female teaching fellow at Harvard, he received his JD from the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida.

Goldenfarb and his wife Colleen live in Palm Beach Gardens and are the proud parents of two adult daughters. When not strategizing GOLDLAW’s future, you can find Goldenfarb playing on a local soccer pitch or enjoying his favorite food, popcorn, while watching any movie in the Star Wars universe.

Speaker. Innovator. Community Leader.

In high demand as a speaker and lecturer, Goldenfarb founded and created the highly respected
7 Figure Attorney Summit Seminar. Launched in 2017, the 1-Day workshops allow him to share the formulas/strategies he’s developed over the years with other Attorney CEOs so they can better serve clients and maximize revenue for their practices. Goldenfarb is a recognized leader in the American Association for Justice for being one of the few lawyers in the U.S. who has successfully litigated in AED law. The availability of AED devices has been proven to save the lives of those stricken by sudden cardiac arrest, and Goldenfarb has found justice for the families of those who suffered SCA in public and could have been saved if the facility had an operational AED.

Goldenfarb has established GOLDLAW as a business leader in community involvement through the firm’s affiliation/support of many organizations in Palm Beach County. GOLDLAW is a “Straight Ally” and partner with Compass, working to engage, empower and enrich the lives of the LGTBQ+ Community. Other organizations that the firm supports include the Palm Beach County Human Trafficking Task Force, the Caridad Center/Free Clinic for Immigrants, The Read for the Record Project at the Luciano Martinez School, and the Mothers Against Murderers Association. Goldenfarb was also the founder of the Hoops4Heroes 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament, hosted annually in the spring, to raise donations for local veterans in need.

Goldenfarb’s leadership extends beyond GOLDLAW. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, having obtained results of more than a million dollars in many cases. The recognition demonstrates his proficiency and competence in achieving exceptional results for his clients.

In addition to these distinguished accomplishments, Goldenfarb holds an “AV Preeminent” rating by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review process. This is a significant recognition that is a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him or her at the highest level of legal professional excellence and ethics.

“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.”
Abraham Lincoln

EDUCATION

  • • University of Florida
    • o Doctor of Jurisprudence – 1995
  • • Duke University
    • o Bachelor of Arts – 1992

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

  • • American Bar Association
  • • Florida Bar Association
  • • Palm Beach County Bar Association
  • • Trial Bar of the U.S. District Court
    • o Southern & Middle Florida Districts
  • • American Association of Justice
  • • Florida Justice Association

NOTEWORTHY RECOVERIES

  • • $6.5m – “K.T.” v. Major Trucking Company
    • o Wrongful Death Involving semi-truck
  • • $3.5M – Inadequate Security at an Apartment Complex
    • o Wrongful Death of a young man during an attempted burglary
  • • $3.2M – Hospital Negligence
    • o Young child dies due to hospital ignoring a gravely ill child.
  • • $1.3M – Man Struck on Motorcycle
    • o Wrongful Death involving motorcycle
  • • $960K – Woman v. Big Box Store
    • o Slip and Fall with multiple surgeries