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Ms. Goldstein earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is admitted to practice in New York.

Ms. Goldstein is ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA in Advertising: Transactional & Regulatory (Nationwide), where she has also been designated a “Star Individual,” the guide’s highest tier of individual recognition; Chambers describes her as handling “every type of advertising issue” for “an elite client base” and notes that her “experience in the industry is hard to top.” She is a Legal 500 “Hall of Fame” attorney, is recognized by Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers, and has been named among the Top 50 Women Lawyers. She served as Contributing Editor of the Chambers Global Practice Guide on Advertising & Marketing and co-authored its U.S. chapter on advertising law. Her commentary on advertising and consumer protection has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and NBC’s TODAY Show, and she is a frequent speaker at the industry’s most prominent conferences and accredited CLE programs.

Ms. Goldstein has held leadership positions in the organizations that shape marketing self-regulation and policy. She is a member of the Government Affairs Committee of the Performance Driven Marketing Institute (PDMI), where she co-chairs the Women’s Leadership Council and the Women’s Mentoring Program, serves on the University Committee as an instructor, and has been inducted into the PDMI Hall of Fame. She previously served as Chair of the Board of the Electronic Retailing Association, the trade group whose members pioneered continuity and subscription marketing, and as Chair and Board Member of the Brand Activation Association division of the Association of National Advertisers, where she remains a member of the Legal Affairs Committee. She also serves on the Legal Affairs Committee of the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association, is a member of the American Bar Association, and is a former Chair of the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic.

Before joining CM Law, Ms. Goldstein co-led the Advertising, Marketing and Digital Media team at BakerHostetler, chaired the Advertising, Marketing & Media Division at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, and chaired the advertising, marketing and media department at Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood, a leading New York advertising boutique where she was a name partner. Her subscription and negative option work is extensive and directly on point: she represented the largest dating app company in an FTC investigation of its subscription program and ROSCA compliance; represented beauty, credit reporting, and publishing industry leaders in FTC and State Attorney General investigations of their subscription programs and ROSCA compliance; represented leading publishers and e-commerce retailers in multistate State AG investigations of subscription programs; and advised a major telecommunications company on its consumer buy-flows, cancellation procedures, and customer service policies. She represented an e-commerce and online sweepstakes company in the FTC’s first action targeting dark patterns, represented a major telecom company in a multistate action by more than 30 Attorneys General that set industry-wide wireless marketing standards, represented two major retailers in FTC investigations under the Mail Order Rule, defended a social gaming network in a landmark FTC influencer marketing case, and represented the nation’s largest ticket seller in an FTC investigation of its sales practices. Having sat across the table from the FTC and State AGs on the precise issues — enrollment, disclosure, consent, and cancellation — that ROSCA, the revived Click-to-Cancel Rule, and the dark patterns enforcement wave put in play, she is uniquely positioned to explain what regulators are looking for in 2026 and how subscription businesses can build compliant flows before the enforcement letter arrives.