Ms. Goldblatt is the founder of the The Goldblatt Law Firm. She has over twenty-seven years of civil trial and litigation experience in the federal, state and administrative courts throughout the United States. She has represented individuals and corporate clients in both individual lawsuits and class actions. She has litigated cases in a wide range of areas, including: civil rights law, employment discrimination, First Amendment law, defamation law, sexual harassment, consumer fraud, false advertising, copyright and trademark infringement, contract law, banking law, environmental law, antitrust law, commercial litigation, shareholder derivative lawsuits and securities law.
Before founding The Goldblatt Law Firm, Lisa Goldblatt was a partner in the Washington, DC, office of Sanford, Wittels & Heisler, LLP, litigating civil rights and discrimination cases. Prior to that, Ms. Goldblatt was a litigation associate in the Washington, DC, offices of Kelley Drye Collier Shannon, LLP, and Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, LLP. She also was an intern for the Honorable Gladys Kessler in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Ms. Goldblatt was an Adjunct Professor at The George Washington University Law School where she taught Introduction to Advocacy and Legal Research & Writing.
She received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.
Lisa Goldblatt is admitted to practice law before the Maryland and District of Columbia bars, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Litigation Percentage
95% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions
Maryland, 1997
District of Columbia, 1998
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, 1998
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 2003
Supreme Court of the United States, 2008
Education
George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC, 1997
J.D.
Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1991
B.A. in English
Honors: Cum Laude
Experience
Partner, Sanford, Wittels & Heisler, LLP (2004-2006)
Associate, Collier Shannon Scott, LLP (2000-2004)
Associate, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP (1997-2000)
Classes/Seminars Taught
Legal Research & Writing, George Washington University Law School
Introduction to Advocacy, George Washington University Law School
Deposition Skills Program, National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Professional Associations and Memberships
American Bar Association (Law Practice Management & Labor and Employment Section)
Maryland Bar Association
District of Columbia Bar Association
Federal Bar Association
Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association
Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland
The William B. Bryant American Inn of Court (Senior Membership Chair)