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Jim Goh
Jim Goh
Partner
jgoh@hollandhart.com
Denver Office
555 Seventeenth Street
Suite 3200
Denver, CO 80202-3979
Phone: 303-295-8406
Fax: 303-223-3356

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PRACTICE AREAS

Labor & Employment
Commercial and Tort Litigation
Class Actions
Education Law

EXPERIENCE

Mr. Goh is a partner at Holland & Hart LLP in Denver, focusing on employment and commercial litigation. He represents management in the areas of employment discrimination, whistle-blowing, wage/hour, occupational safety and health (OSHA), employment-related torts, employment contracts, and labor arbitration. Mr. Goh also has substantial experience in the defense of complex multi-plaintiff cases and class actions. In addition, Mr. Goh represents and counsels colleges and universities on issues related to employment, student privacy, student and faculty discipline, tenure denials, student athletics, diversity-based scholarships, and other aspects of education law.

An AV-rated lawyer, Mr. Goh frequently lectures on employment and litigation issues, both nationally and internationally, including Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Indonesia and Canada. Mr. Goh is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society composed of fewer than one-half of one percent of American lawyers. From 2002 through 2005, Mr. Goh served as Chair of the Employment and Immigration Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), an association of lawyers from around the world. He serves as Subcommittee Co-Chair of the ABA's Trial Evidence Committee - Electronic Evidence, and was also Vice-Chair of the Employer-Employee Relations Subcommittee of the ABA's Torts & Insurance Practice Section.

Mr. Goh is a national figure in the diversity arena. He received ABA presidential appointments to serve on two blue-ribbon commissions: the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession (2008-present) and the ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice (1999-2003). From 1995 to 1999, he served on the Board of Governors of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA). Presently, Mr. Goh chairs NAPABA's Best Lawyers Under 40 Committee. In 1999, Mr. Goh was invited to be a member of President Clinton's Lawyers for One America Initiative.

Within Holland & Hart, Mr. Goh chaired the firm's Diversity Committee from 2006-2009, and serves on the firm's Recruiting Committee.

Prior to joining Holland & Hart, Mr. Goh clerked for Hon. Frank G. Theis, U.S. District of Kansas. He received his B.A. (English), from The Colorado College, and his J.D. (1991) from the University of Kansas, where he served on the Kansas Law Review.

HONORS

Listed as a Colorado Super Lawyer (2007-present)

Inducted as Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America (Trial Lawyer Honorary Society) (2007-present)

Earned Martindale-Hubbell's highest "AV" (Preeminent) rating (2002-present)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Chair, Employment & Immigration Committee of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (2002-2005)

Co-Chair, Electronic Evidence - Trial Evidence Committee of the American Bar Association's Litigation Section (2006-present)

Commissioner, Commission on Women in the Profession of the American Bar Association (2008-present)

Chair, Best Lawyers Under 40 Committee of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2002-present)

Member, President Clinton's Lawyers for One America Initiative (1999-2000)

Council Member, Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice of the American Bar Association (1999-2003)

Secretary, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (1998-1999)

Vice-Chair, Employer-Employee Relations Committee of the American Bar Association (Torts & Insurance Practice Section) (1996-2002)

Regional Governor, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (1995-1997)

Secretary, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Colorado (1993-94)

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Frequent writer and lecturer on employment law topics in the US and other countries, including Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Canada:

"Cross Border Employment Issues: How Multi-National Companies Can Avoid Pitfalls," (Singapore, May 2010)

"Executive Compensation in Cross Border Employment Contracts," (Singapore, May 2010)

"Americans With Disabilities Act: New Regulations and Developments," (Denver, April 2010)

"Caught In The Judicial-Congressional Tug Of War: Making Sense Of Recent And Upcoming Supreme Court Decisions And Congressional Legislation," Thought Leadership - Employment Law 2010 (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore) (January 2010)

"ADA Amendments Act: How to Handle An Accommodation Request" (Denver, October 2009)

"OSHA's New Emphasis on Recordkeeping," Colorado Employment Law Letter, (November 2009)

"Reaching The High Seas And Beyond: The Extraterritorial Application Of U.S. Employment Laws," presented at National Association of College and University Attorneys' CLE Workshop (Memphis, April 2008)

Dealing with Discrimination Lawsuits, Inside the Minds: Employment Discrimination Lawsuits (January 2008)

"Protection of Trade Secrets Across International Borders," (Seoul, May 2006)

"Image-Based Or Appearance Discrimination: When Hip Is Hazardous," Minority Corporate Counsel Association's CLE Expo, (New York, May 2006)

"On the Road Again: Dealing with Employee Mobility," (Puerto Rico, May 2005)

EDUCATION

University of Kansas J.D. 1991

Colorado College B.A. 1988

Maktab Perguruan Bahasa
- Language Teaching College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia


OTHER LANGUAGES

Hokkien (Chinese dialect)
Malay (Bahasa Malaysia)