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

In March, 2008, Mr. Gold was nominated to be a member of the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association.

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

In 2007, Mr. Gold was appointed Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Chicago Bar Association. 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. In 2008 and 2009, Mr. Gold will be chairing the Bicentennial Lincoln Celebration for the Chicago Bar Association which is teaming with the Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois, Chicago Public Library, The Chicago Historical Museum, DuSable Museum, and Newberry Library. The celebration will include President Lincoln’s effect on present day human rights. It will take place over 6 months. Doris Kearns Goodwin, internationally known Lincoln scholar, will be the keynote speaker at the end of the celebration. She authored A Team of Rivals.

On June 23, 2005, the 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, 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, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 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 70 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.


Articles Available On-Line:
Fair Credit Reporting Act - Pitfalls for Attorneys and Creditors; “The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials”; “CBA Record Magazine, March 2006"