Michael Goldstein, Esq.
Attorney Goldstein is one of the founding partners of Goldstein and Clegg, LLC. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the Federal Bar for the District of Massachusetts. Attorney Goldstein is a graduate of the Massachusetts School of Law. He also holds a Bachelors of Art in Finance and Operations Management from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
Attorney Goldstein's concentrates in the practice areas of Corporate Employment Law, Small Business Represenation, Business Formation and Bankruptcy.
In addition to his legal expertise, Attorney Goldstein has extensive experience in web application development, search engine marketing, and instruction at the college level in all web development disciplines. He has created the processes and practices that deliver increased organic search rankings for many web based companies.
Before becoming a lawyer, he led a nationally known web applications firm for nine years. In his time with that company he consulted with major corporations, developed content management systems and increased clients search engine ranking.
Outside of his law firm duties, Attorney Goldstein is a part-time instructor in small business online marketing at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts. He has also dedicates a significant amount of his time to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of New England.
The latest from our blog:
| Teen Girls the subject of Sexual Harassment |
| On our employment law blog, Attorney Michael Goldstein has posted a very interesting article regarding sexual harassment in the workplace and how the practice of such has shifted from adults to part-time teenage employees. It demonstrates how retail stores, restaurants and other outlets found in the malls throughout the country need to be more proactive [...] |
| Bankruptcy relief from student loans |
| Although this blog primarily deals with cyber law and small business issues, many of our readers and subjects of blog articles come from a place where they have amassed immense student loans. As such, one of our attorney’s, Michael Goldstein has drafted a very poignant article on our Massachusetts Bankruptcy Blog detailing, bankruptcy relief [...] |
| How business owners can obtain a prejudgement attachement |
| An attachment is a prejudgment security device available to a creditor seeking to recover money damages and is used to encumber the debtor’s property during the pendency of the lawsuit. Mass. R. Civ. P. 4.1. Among the types of property subject to attachments are real property, personal property (including liquor licenses), and property of the [...] |
| Boston Globe Reports: AG charges mortgage broker with fraud |
| Kimberly Blanton of The Boston Globe reported on March 8, 2008 that the Massachusetts attorney general filed suit yesterday against a Quincy mortgage broker, charging the firm with falsifying applications from customers to ensure they would qualify for loans. Brokers at Lehi Mortgage Services Inc. inflated incomes and savings account balances of loan applicants to boost [...] |
| Wrongful Termination claim barred by failure to advise bankruptcy court |
| Each year millions of Americans file for chapter 7 or 13 bankruptcy protection in order to eliminate unsecured debt, including large credit card balances, or in order to stop a foreclosure on their home. What these debtor’s don’t realize, is that not only do they need to put the bankruptcy trustee on notice of [...] |
| Federal Courts Acknowledge Online Propensity |
| On December 1, 2007, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure received several updates, demonstrating the Federal Courts acknowledgement of the impact of online activity in our daily lives. Several rules were modified to include technological vernacular. Most notably, Rules 11 and 26, which directs attorney’s contact information to be added to pleadings further, [...] |
| Massachusetts Jurisdiction over Internet-based companies |
| If an individual conducts business over the internet with a web-based company and the parties enter into an agreement, and the company either breaches the agreement or commits some form of fraudulent or deceptive business practice with the buyer, can the buyer sue the company in his or her home state? The issue become [...] |
| Why you should not incorporate in Delaware. |
| Recently I was reading a blog entry by another blogger who I read frequently, and came across a posting, 5 top reasons’s to incorporate in Delaware. In this blog posting, many positive facets are discussed, including Delaware’s flexible and in many cases advantageous corporate laws, including added privacy for business owners and inexpensive filing [...] |
| What a new business should look for in a SEO proposal |
| As an attorney with many small business clients creating their first websites, I am frequently asked to analyze a website’s searchability and potential for rankings on Google, Yahoo, MSN and other search portals. I find that using a professional search engine optimization expert is critical in analyzing a client’s potential. [...] |
| Private Info Can’t Be Published on Internet |
| A very interesting press release that I read today regarding private information being broadcast on the internet: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Tuesday, December 13, 2007 00:01 Contact: Glenn Hagele Mobile: 916/203-2442 Email: glenn.hagele@usaeyes.org Documents: http://www.GlennHagele.com Private Info in Public Documents Puts Millions at Risk Whistleblower’s Social Security Number published on Internet means World Wide Woes. A North Carolina court has ordered [...] |
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Attorney Goldstein:
220 Broadway, Suite 205
Lynnfield, Massachusetts
Phone: 781 595 3800
M.Goldstein@GoldsteinandClegglaw.com
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