PRACTICE AREAS
Ms. Goldstein practices law in the following areas:
State and Local Government Law; Public and Government Contracts; Construction Law; Commercial Litigation; School Law; Planning and Zoning Law; and Land Use.
Associate Judge, Municipal Court, City of Cockrell Hill
Associate Judge, Municipal Court, City of Dallas
Presiding Judge, Municipal Court, City of Royse City

DISTINCTIONS
Language: Fluent in Spanish

Appointed Legal Counselor to the Mexican Consulate in Houston, Texas on March 20, 1998.
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Life Fellow of The Foundation of The Federal Bar Association
Life Fellow of The Dallas Association of Young Lawyers

BAR ADMISSIONS
United States Supreme Court;
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit;
United States District Courts for the Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas

EDUCATION
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, NATIONAL LAW CENTER, Washington, D.C., J.D., 1990
HOOD COLLEGE, Frederick, Maryland, B.A., 1984

PRESENTATIONS
Ms. Goldstein is a frequent faculty member of and speaker before the Texas Municipal Courts Education Center, the National Court Collections Symposium, the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Governmental Collectors Association of Texas and individual clients. Such presentations are made before prosecutors, judges, local municipal and county officials, police officers, code enforcement officers and staff in the following general areas of local concern: outsourcing collection contracts, planning and zoning, code enforcement, nuisance abatement and ordinances, moratoriums and growth management, competitive bidding and procurement policies. Ms. Goldstein has also participated in an Alternate Dispute Resolution seminar in Mexico and presented before the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico on the Texas death penalty, the trial, appeal and habeas corpus.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

• The First Amendment and Independent Contractors: The U.S. Supreme Court Expands Governmental Liability, The Urban Lawyer, The National Quarterly on State and Local Government Law, Vol.29, No. 2 (Spring 1997)
• The Federal Lawyer, Vol. 44, No. 4 (May 1997, by Terrence S. Welch and Bonnie Lee Goldstein.
• Fanciful Logic and Creative History: Successful Assaults on Critical Path-Based Claims, The University of Texas Law School, 7th annual Construction Law Conference, February 10-11, 1994, Houston, Texas. Presented by Bonnie Goldstein Daniel (co-authored with John W. Nassen).
• Construction Warranties in Texas, The Construction Lawyer (Vol. 13, No. 2) April 1993. Presented by Bonnie Lee Daniel (co-authored with Laird E. Lawrence).

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Federal Bar Association, Dallas Chapter, Member, leadership and Executive Committee (1995 to present)

PUBLISHED OPINIONS
Ed A. Wilson, Inc. v. General Services Administration, 126 F.3d 1406 (Fed. Cir. 1997).
Ed A. Wilson, Inc. v. General Services Administration, GSBCA 12596, 96-1 BCA ¶ 27, 934.