Education: University of Illinois, B.A., 1962; Northwestern University, J.D., 1965.

On March 9, 2010, Mr. Gold will be chairing a symposium concerning Human Trafficking and the Trial of Enemy Combatants. The symposium will be presented by the CBA Human Rights Committee, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Hispanic Bar Association of Illinois, Human Rights Watch and National Immigrant Justice Center. Click here to view the continually updated program in PDF format.

In 2009 Mr. Gold was given the "Highest Rating in Legal Ability and Ethical Standards" by the AV Peer Review of Martindale Hubbell.

In June, 2008, Mr. Gold was elected to a two year term as a member of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association. At the same time, he was appointed by the Honorable E. Kenneth Wright, presiding Judge of the First Municipal District of Cook County, Illinois and President of the Chicago Bar Association as Chairman of the Chicago Bar Association’s Lincoln Bi-centennial celebration. The Chicago Bar Association took the lead role, along with the Chicago History Museum and the Chicago Public Library in presenting the re-enactment of the Lincoln Douglas debates at the Pritzker Auditorium of the Chicago Library, April 2, 2009 and presented a seminal event on 5/2/09 at Chicago Navy Pier’s Grand Ballroom when Doris Kearns Goodwin, historian-author of A Team of Rivals, was the keynote speaker. Steven Spielberg is presently producing a movie based upon this book starring Liam Neeson and Sally Field.

On May 1, 2008, Mr. Gold as Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, presented a program on Modern Day Slavery - which took place at the Standard Club of Chicago. Five hundred local area students were in attendance along with Judges and members of the Bar. Professor Douglas Cassel, Director of the Human Rights program at Notre Dame Law School was the keynote speaker. Also speaking was 17 year old Clementine Wymardi, a New Trier High School student, who survived Genocide and escaped from Rwanda.

In 2007, Mr. Gold was appointed the first Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Chicago Bar Association, the year this was committee was created. He still remains Chairman. In March of 2007 he spearheaded a full day symposium on Human Rights violations in Darfur at which the following individuals spoke: Professor Bernadine Dohrn, Dr. Mary Fabri, Jessica Darrow, Representative Jan Schakowsky, Tribune foreign correspondence Paul Salopek, Ambassador J.D. Bindenagel, Dr. John Heffernan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Professor Douglass W. Cassell, head of Human Rights Program for Notre Dame Law School, Dr. Babafemi Akinrinade. The symposium was attended by over 600 individuals, including 400 students from Chicago area high schools and colleges.

On June 23, 2005, the then President of the Chicago Bar Association appointed Mr. Gold as Chairman of the Joint Program of the Chicago Bar Association and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Nuremberg War Trials. The program was a two-day symposium in Chicago, Illinois occurring in March of 2006. There were panel discussions, presentation of excerpts of portions of the trial, seminars by internationally known historians and the only two living prosecutors at Nuremberg who prosecuted throughout the trial: Professor Bernard Meltzer and Professor Whitney R. Harris.

It was after this program in June 2006, , Mr. Gold was appointed co-chairperson of the newly formed Human Rights Committee of the Chicago Bar Association along with the Honorable Martha A. Mills, Cook County Circuit Court Judge and former staff and chief attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights under law in Mississippi and Cairo, Illinois in 1966-1969 where Judge Mills tried hundreds of civil rights cases including obtaining a $1 million verdict against the Ku Klux Klan.

Mr. Gold is a Member of American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, American Bar Foundation, Illinois Bar Foundation, Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyer’s Association, Decalogue Society of Lawyers, and Lincoln Inn of Court, He has been an Instructor at Roosevelt University Civil Litigation for legal assistants, Instructor, Chicago Bar Association and Illinois State Bar Association continuing legal education seminars. Past Chairman, Municipal Department Committee of Chicago Bar Association; member Chicago Bar Association Nominating Committee; Chicago Bar Association Specialization Task Force and Chicago Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Committee. Former board member of the Menomonee Club for Boys and Girls, Member of the Midwest Events Committee of the United States Holocaust Museum, American Association for Justice, and Member of Legacy of Lights Committee United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Lecturer for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Certificates of appreciation from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999, 2000, 2001, & 2002. Certificate of Appreciation from the Chicago Bar Association in June 1976, June 1984, June 1985, June 1986, June 1987, June 2007. Certificates of appreciation from the Chicago Volunteer Legal Services October 1, 1979. Certificate of appreciation from the Church Federation of Greater Chicago 1978. Chicago Bar Foundation Lifetime Fellow. Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, 2002, and Anti Defamation League.

Engaged in complex commercial litigation, class actions, products liability litigation, medical malpractice litigation, and construction litigation. Has tried to jury verdict in excess of 80 cases. Bench verdicts in excess of 300 cases. Trials involved claims against major corporate defendants such as IBM Corporation, Motorola Corporation, General Motors Corporation, Ford Motor Company (death cases from fire), Lutheran General Hospital, (birth defects involving cerebral palsy), Entertainment cases against various national and international recording companies and publishing companies on behalf of artists deprived of royalty and publishing rights. Co-lead counsel in Estate of James Brown v. Corbis Corporation, the nationally known case of Rosenblum and the Estate of Geroge Orwell v. CBS/Viacom. Year 2000 litigation against IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Medical Manager Corporations, Medic Corporation. Commercial litigation on behalf of Harris Trust and Savings Bank in both federal and state court, including lender liability and preference actions. Mr. Gold has also been appointed lead class counsel in cases against First USA Bank, Bankers Life & Casualty Company, PCS Inc and Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Metropolitain Insurance Co, Hartford Insurance Company, Prudential Insurance Co., Integon Insurance Company, National Insurance Company, Fidelity and Casualty Company, Allstate Insurance Company, Progressive Insurance Company, AIG Insurance Company, Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Company, Superior Insurance Company, Metro Insurance Company, for Florida Doctors, and for Tamoxifen victims against Express Scripts Company, Merck Medco Company, and CVS/Pharmacare, and against American Ambassador Insurance Company on behalf of automobile insureds.

Mr. Gold, for the last 5 years, has been chosen by his peers as an Illinois Super Lawyer and Illinois Leading Lawyer in the area of civil litigation.


Articles Available On-Line:
The Legacy of Lincoln "Lincoln and the Death of Salvery"; “CBA Record Magazine, June/July 2009"
Fair Credit Reporting Act - Pitfalls for Attorneys and Creditors; “The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials”; “CBA Record Magazine, March 2006"