Phone & Fax: (520) 497-1138

Email: eng@goldsmith-mendoza.com

Eugene "Gene" Goldsmith is a native New Yorker who has proudly called Tucson home for over 40 years. Gene received graduate and law degrees from the University of Arizona and has been an Arizona trial lawyer for almost 35 years.

Gene is an AV rated lawyer who  maintains a general commercial and tort litigation practice. He focuses on complex litigation and working with his clients to identify problems and find solutions.  Gene's practice has included partnership and shareholder disputes, securities fraud, wrongful death, personal injury, insurance coverage, contract, defamation, commercial disparagement, real estate, wrongful discharge, discrimination, class actions, quiet title and bad faith. 

 
Gene was formerly a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable James D. Hathaway, Arizona Court of Appeals, Division 2, and a shareholder and associate at the Tucson law firm of Miller, Pitt & McAnally, P.C (currently Miller, Pitt, Feldman & McAnally, P..C).   Gene was also a partner at  McNamara Goldsmith P.C. for 25 years. Before going to law school, Gene spent four years as a teacher in Nogales, Arizona, serving as a special education resource teacher and supervising classrooms for learning disabled and developmentally disabled high school and junior high school students.
 

Gene continues his passion for helping others through his service as a Board Member and Trustee of the Beacon Group.  The Beacon Group provides vocational and community living experiences for developmentally disabled adults, including a sheltered workshop, community job placements and a day activity program. 

Areas of Practice:

Commercial Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Personal Injury, Insurance Bad Faith, Defamation, Probate litigation, P.A.C.A.

Education:

• University of Arizona College of Law, Tucson, Arizona
• J.D. with High Distinction - 1985 (Class Rank: Top 10%)
• Order of the Coif
• Law Review: Arizona Law Review (1983-5), Special Projects Editor (1984-5)
• University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
• Master of Education in Special Education - 1981
• State University College at Buffalo, New York
•  B.S. in Special and Elementary Education - 1977