Franklin Goldstein
Counsel
fgoldstein@semmes.com

Baltimore Office
Suite 1400
25 S. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
410.576.4776
410.539.5223 (Fax)

Mr. Goldstein serves as General Counsel to several Maryland corporations; he has general oversight of all their legal matters and recommends legal specialists in any areas as required. He has extensive experience in the State of Maryland, County and City legislative representation, corporate law, administrative law, bankruptcy law and sports & entertainment law, with extensive involvement in horse racing industry law. He has been a lobbyist at the Maryland General Assembly since 1968 and still represents clients who started with him as a lobbyist more than 30 years ago.

Admitted

• 1953, Maryland

Education

• Harvard University (LL.B., magna cum laude, 1953)
• Editor, Harvard Law Review, 1951-1953
• University of Maryland (B.S., with honors, 1950)

Affiliations, Associations & Special Achievements

• Special Assistant Attorney General, State of Maryland (1962-1963)
• Counsel to the Receiver of Commercial Savings and Loan Association
• Assistant Attorney General, State of Maryland (1963-1967)
• Chief of the Civil Division Office of the Attorney of the State of Maryland (1966-1967)
• Chairman of the Board of Patuxent Institution (1968-1976)