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Alumni
Postcards
Cary Kochberg – UK
I was a summer student at Goodmans before articling. After qualifying in
1986, I made my way to litigation working largely on some of the big
contentious insolvency cases of the day with many great senior lawyers like
Cliff Lax, Gale Rubenstein, Jay Carfagnini, John Keefe and many others.
Also made lots of wonderful friends like Saul Fridman (now tragically no
longer with us), Ira Berg, Kathleen Taylor, Graham Smith and many others.
In 1988, the draw of returning to England proved too strong and I moved to
what is now Hogan Lovells on what was supposed to be a two year break
from Canada, but has turned into 26 years. My practice involves cross
border fraud and insolvency cases like working for the US Trustee in
Bankruptcy of Bernard Madoff, the liquidators of BCCI, and on a variety of
big fraud cross-border cases involving the CIS. The work has taken me
Cary in the French Alps (Morzine)
around the world, but I wouldn’t overstate the attractions of Astana in
February! However, the British Virgin Islands – well that’s altogether more pleasant... I have two wonderful sons, who are frequent
visitors to Canada with me and might end up following in my career footsteps if I can’t persuade them otherwise. I have very special
memories of my time at Goodmans – a great firm with such talented and charismatic people, who also knew how to have fun!
Martin Salomon – California
I left Goodmans in 1997 with fellow Goodmans’ alum Jordan Banks
to travel the world. After a year of travel, I ended up in London working
as a solicitor at Clifford Chance for 3 years with Goodmans’ alum Laura
King and spending a lot of time traveling around Europe, attending
soccer and rugby games and drafting the odd Trust Deed. In 2000, I left
the law and moved to New York to start a career in institutional sales
with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. I have been with Bernstein ever since,
having spent the last 10 years in Los Angeles. In May, I got married in
Malibu to a Northern California native, Marita Cooke, and we were lucky
enough to have Goodmans friends Neill May, Jordan Banks and Tom
Heintzman attend the wedding on just three weeks’ notice (if we had
more time to plan things, we would have had Tom Friedland and Fran
Martin with wife Marita and son Parker (California)
Guolo join as well). In September, we welcomed our son, Parker James to
the family. Parker has already received a box full of Herzl Cup memorabilia from David Matlow and is hoping to play for the Montreal
team when he learns how to walk. My years at Goodmans were truly some of the best years of my life, mostly due to the great
friendships that I made that I still treasure today – and of course, all the tickets Dale gave me to the Leaf & Raptors games, the
Canada Cup, wrestling matches and the Blue Jays World Series wins. If you make it out to Los Angeles, please look me up.
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