Sonja Goldstein | Attorney

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About Sonja

Mrs. Goldstein graduated with first class honors from the London School of Economics, London University, in 1947. In 1952, she obtained her law degree from Yale Law School, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Attorney Goldstein has practiced law in New Haven since 1963. She practiced in the firm headed by Arthur S. Sachs from 1963 to 1995. From 1995 until 2000, she practiced with Eric I. B. Beller, P.C., and from 2000 to 2001 with Beller, Goldstein and Allentuch, P.C. She has held the position of Lecturer in Family Law at Yale University Child Study Center since 1978, and was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School in 1995 and 1996. She was a member of the bars of the District of Columbia and Connecticut, and in 1976 she was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mrs. Goldstein was a member of the Friends of Legal Services of South Central Connecticut and of the Friends of the Library of the Supreme Court of Israel. She is co-author, with Albert J. Solnit, of Divorce and Your Child (1984), and, with Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud and Albert J. Solnit, of In the Best Interest of the Child (1986), and of The Best Interest of the Child: The Least Detrimental Alternative (1996). Attorney Goldstein, currently, is also practicing in the areas of health law, managed care contracting and the organizational and employment aspects of physician practices.

Education

London School of Economics, London University