Attorney Bios

Mr. Golub served as lead private counsel for the State of Connecticut in its action against the tobacco industry. Connecticut’s leading role in the nationwide litigation and helping achieve the nationwide settlement was specifically recognized by a special panel of former Attorneys General, which concluded that the contribution of Connecticut’s legal team to the national settlement was among the top five of the 57 states and other entities involved in that litigation. Connecticut stands to recover nearly $4 billion as a result of its team’s legal efforts.

Mr. Golub has also successfully represented corporate whistleblowers in actions brought on behalf of the United States Government under the False Claims Act. His $150 million settlement in 1994 of a claim against United Technologies Corporation was, at the time, the largest such award ever recovered for the United States Government under the Act. Mr. Golub’s client received a relator's share of $22.5 million dollars, then also the largest such award ever given to a relator under the Act.

In the employment sphere, Mr. Golub has successfully represented plaintiffs in numerous discrimination, ERISA and other employment-related actions in state and federal courts. In 1986, Mr. Golub prosecuted a fraud and breach of contract action against Exxon Corporation in Bridgeport federal court, resulting in a ten million dollar verdict in favor of a former Exxon employee, then one of the highest employment law verdicts for an individual in the country. In 1987, he was lead counsel in a class action against Xerox Corporation for violation of ERISA pension laws, resulting in what is believed to be the largest class action case in Connecticut history, involving a settlement affecting approximately 40,000 present and former Xerox employees. In 1989, Mr. Golub obtained a four million dollar judgment for a former employee of IBM as a result of a private security firm’s wrongful invasion of his privacy. In 1992, he successfully concluded a nearly ten year battle to obtain severance benefits for 178 former employees of Olin Corporation, obtaining a four million dollar settlement. In 1999, Mr. Golub obtained a verdict of over $8 million for a female news anchor terminated from her position by a Connecticut television station. Most recently, he obtained a multi-million dollar recovery for a former executive at Ultramar Corporation, twice obtaining reversal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit of adverse rulings in the district court.

In 1984, Mr. Golub represented Ernie Cobb, a former basketball star at Boston College accused of point shaving. Cobb was acquitted after a jury trial in federal court in Brooklyn. Mr. Golub also has been involved in representing two inmates on death row in Florida, successfully helping to obtain a reversal of the death sentence in both cases. In December 1987, in recognition of his work on the cases, he received the National Legal Aid and Defender Association’s annual award for outstanding volunteer contributions by a private attorney to legal assistance for the poor. He has also been active in constitutional and civil rights litigation. He has represented The New York Times and Times Mirror Corporation in First Amendment litigation, the Chief State's Attorney for the State of Connecticut in a civil rights action and one of Connecticut’s U.S. Senators in a case arguing the constitutional rights of the mentally retarded. In 1986, he successfully argued a voting rights case in the United States Supreme Court establishing the right of a political party to determine who may vote in a party primary. He was also involved in amicus role in Connecticut’s landmark school desegregation decision.

Mr. Golub is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. In addition to his appearances before the United States and Connecticut Supreme Courts, he is admitted to practice and has argued cases in the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Fourth, Sixth and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Golub has also taught trial practice at both the Yale Law School and the University of Connecticut School of Law.