Seventh ANNUAL WOMEN IN LAW LEADERSHIP LECTURE
The seventh annual Roger Williams University School of Law Women in Law Leadership Lecture will feature Carrie Goldberg, Esq., founder of Victims’ Rights law firm C. A. Goldberg, PLLC, and will be held as a fireside chat with Roger Williams University School of Law Professor Emily J. Sack.
5:00 PM Lecture - RWU Law 283 - 2nd Floor
Reception immediately following lecture.
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Carrie Goldberg is the founder of Victims’ Rights law firm C. A. Goldberg, PLLC, which does groundbreaking work nationally fighting for survivors of sexual violence and representing victims of catastrophic injuries caused by tech giants. The firm leads the nation in landmark cases challenging Section 230 immunity against big tech. As lead counsel in Herrick v. Grindr, Carrie introduced the novel legal approach of applying product liability law to dangerous tech products. The firm presently represents 28 families suing Amazon for selling a suicide poison to their children. In November 2023 the firm’s monumental settlement in A.M. v. Omegle resulted in the platform shuttering forever. The case created new precedent in the realm of product liability and sex trafficking, the first case to overcome Section 230 where the plaintiff sued a platform for injuries caused by a malicious user. The firm overcame 230 immunity in January 2024 against Snap for its role in fentanyl deaths in Neville, et al. v Snap and represented the plaintiff in Doe v Grindr relating to the foreseeable child rapes caused from the app marketing to children. Carrie proudly served on the plaintiff steering committee in the multi-district litigation against Snap, Google, TikTok, and Meta regarding the platforms designing products intended to addict children.
Goldberg has testified four times to US Congress about Section 230, helped launch the 2022 White House Task Force to Address Online Harassment and Abuse. She co-authored the 2024 Youth Poisoning Protection Act to ban the household sale of a suicide chemical.
Among the firm’s better-known clients are former Congresswoman Katie Hill and five Weinstein accusers, including Lucia Evans whose accusations helped launch the #MeToo movement and resulted in Weinstein’s arrest. Some of the firm’s proudest successes, though, are the ones that stay out of the headlines – recoveries for adult survivors of child sexual abuse and restraining orders against stalkers. In K.M. v. City of New York, C.A. Goldberg, PLLC achieved the highest known recovery in a Title IX case in NYC as one of a series of three cases where Goldberg exposed the pattern and practice of discrimination and retaliation against girls of color who reported sex assaults in their K-12 schools.
Carrie’s well-known legislative and litigation work for victims of nonconsensual porn is featured in the documentary Netizens and her work is profiled in The New Yorker, Elle, Cosmo, Wired, Glamour and more. Carrie is the author of “Nobody’s Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs & Trolls” a 2019 NYT Editor’s Choice and Paramount TV is developing a fictionalized series about Carrie and the firm. She was born and raised in Aberdeen Washington and attended Vassar College and Brooklyn Law School.
In addition to the lecture, the program will feature the announcement of the winners of the RWU Law RBG Essay/Art Contest for RI school children.
This program is pending approval for one general Rhode Island MCLE credit.
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