Charles P. Goodwin in a shareholder in the Antitrust and
Employee Benefits/ERISA practice groups at Berger &
Montague. He concentrates his practice on antitrust
litigation and employee benefits.
Mr. Goodwin played a central role in recovering $531 million in
settlement for purchasers of high fructose corn syrup from ADM,
A.E. Staley, Cargill, American Maize-Products and Corn Products
Corporation on claims that they had fixed prices and allocated
volumes among themselves, in a litigation that lasted ten years and
involved four fully briefed appeals to the United States Court of
Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. (In re
High Fructose Corn Syrup Antitrust Litigation, MDL No.
1087 (C.D. Ill.)) He led Berger & Montague's efforts in
obtaining one of the seminal opinions concerning electronic
discovery in Xperior Inc. v. Credit Suisse First Boston (USA)
Inc., 309 F. Supp. 2d 459 (S.D.N.Y. 2003.)
Mr. Goodwin served as lead counsel to the state court class
action plaintiffs in a settlement yielding significant structural
and monetary relief on behalf of GNC franchisees in Duarte v.
GNC, No. 00-cv-332 (W.D. Pa.), and Powers v. GNC
Franchising, Inc., No. GD 99-6778 (Allegheny County).
Additionally, he has helped retirees in recovering medical
benefits, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, that were revoked
by their former employers (In re Unisys
Retiree Medical Benefits ERISA Litigation, MDL No. 969
(E.D. Pa.), Local 56 UFCW v.
Campbell Soup Co., No. 93 MC 276 (D.N.J)), and millions in
assets mis-invested by their pension funds (Rose v.
Cooney, No. 5:92-CV-208 (D. Conn.)).
Between college and law school, Mr. Goodwin was a researcher
with the Normative Aging Study, an epidemiological study jointly
conducted by the Harvard School of Public Heath, Boston University
and the then-Veterans Administration. While practicing law,
he has pursued graduate study in philosophy at the University of
Pennsylvania and Temple University.
Mr. Goodwin was an editor of the University of Pennsylvania
Law Review and received the Graves Essay Prize in
economics at Williams College.