JESSICA L. GOLDMAN

Litigation/ Media Law Attorney
(206) 676-7000

Practice: Jessica Goldman is a litigator whose practice focuses on commercial litigation - including insurance coverage, contract, fraud, construction defect, and intellectual property cases - and media litigation - including defamation, privacy, access, prior restraint, reporters' shield laws, public records, and newsgathering torts.

Experience: Jessica represents clients in diverse commercial litigation, with extensive experience representing insurers in coverage disputes. She also represents newspapers, Internet service providers, Internet content providers, and book publishers. In addition to media litigation, Jessica provides prepublication content advice to media companies and Internet content providers.

Representative Cases:

• Argonaut Ins. Co. v. TKCC, Inc.: Defense of Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. and Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. in insurance coverage case
• Atcon Constr. Co. v. Travelers Indem. Co. of Am.: Defense of insurance coverage case
• Bellevue Gardens, LLC v. SECO Develop., Inc.: Representation of St. Paul Mercury Ins. Co. in insurance coverage dispute
• In re Coco’s Bakery Restaurant: Defense of restaurant chain before Wash. Office of Administrative Hearings
• Covner & Dougherty v. John L. Scott, Inc.: Prosecution of breach of contract claim against realtor
• Crookes v. Ellsworth Springs, L.L.C.: Representation of Hartford Fire Ins. Co. in insurance coverage dispute
• The Finish Line, Inc. v. Allegheny Design Mngt., Inc.: Prosecution of construction defect claim before the American Arbitration Association
• Kane v. Douglas County and Waste Mngt. Of Wash., Inc.: Defense of Waste Management in Land Use Petition Act case
• The Paper Zone, Inc. v. Stampadoodle, Inc.: Prosecution of commercial unlawful detainer action
• Quantz v. Kirry, Willms, & Wash. Media Services, Inc.: Defense of defamation claims against public relations firm
• Sadow-Hasenberg v. Johnson: Prosecution of residential unlawful detainer action
• Smiths Aerospace Mechanical Sys. v. HCC Life Ins. Co.: Prosecution of breach of contract claim before the American Arbitration Association
• Somerset Park Condo. Ass’n v. Travelers Cas. Ins. Co. of Am.: Defense of insurance coverage case
• Summit REIT, Inc. & Bentall Capital (U.S.) Inc. v. Jameson Babbitt: Prosecution of legal malpractice case
• Titan Constr. Corp. v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co., et al.: Defense of Travelers Cas. Ins. Co, of Am. and The Charter Oak Fire Ins. Co. in insurance coverage case
• Travelers Cas. & Sur. Co. v. Ribi Immunochem Research, Inc.: Prosecution of insurance coverage case
• Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. of Am. v. Nat’l Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pitts., PA: Prosecution of insurance coverage claims for subrogation, indemnity and contribution
• UBAR, LLC v. Therrell Enterprises, LLC: Prosecution of commercial tenant’s breach of contract, fraud and misrepresentation claims
• Ventenbergs v. The City of Seattle: Defense of Waste Management in constitutional takings case
• Zha Xi v. Northland Ins. Co.; Defense of insurance coverage claims

Education: Oberlin College (B.A., 1989); Washington University School of Law (J.D., 1992), Executive Notes and Comments Editor, Washington University Law Quarterly, Olin Fellow, Order of the Coif; Law Clerk to the Honorable Daniel M. Friedman, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C.

Publications: Co-author, chapters on Alaska and Washington in the Media Law Resource Center's 50-state libel survey; co-author, Washington chapter of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press' 50-state survey of freedom of information laws

Memberships: American Bar Association Forum on Communication Law; Media Law and Defamation Torts Committee of the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section

Honors: Named Rising Star by Washington Law and Politics (2006); Named in The Best Lawyers in America for First Amendment practice (2007)