Tom Goldstein

Who is Tom Goldstein?

Thomas C. Goldstein, known as simply Tom Goldstein, is an American attorney famous as an advocate before and blogger about the Supreme Court of the United States. He was a founding partner of Goldstein and Howe, a Washington, D.C. firm specializing in Supreme Court litigation, and was, until the end of 2010, a partner at Akin Gump, where he was co-head of the litigation and Supreme Court practices. He has since returned to his previous firm. In 2003, he co-founded SCOTUSblog, the most widely read blog covering the Supreme Court, and remains the publisher and occasional contributor, providing analyses and summaries of Supreme Court decisions and cert petitions. Tom teaches Supreme Court Litigation at Harvard Law School and previously taught at Stanford Law School as well from 2004-2012.