Biography
Steven M. Gold serves as an arbitrator, mediator, and Special Master at JAMS. From 1993 until 2021, he served as a United States Magistrate in the Eastern District of New York, and as that Court’s Chief Magistrate Judge from 2007-2016. Prior to his appointment, Judge Gold served, in reverse chronological order, as General Counsel to the New York City Department of Investigation, as Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division and as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, as an associate attorney with the law firm of Orans Elsen & Lupert, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Herbert F. Murray, United States District Judge for the District of Maryland. Judge Gold also served as an adjunct professor of law at Brooklyn Law School from 1996 until 2018, and as the Eastern District co-chair of the Joint Committee on Local Rules for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York from 1999 until 2020. Judge Gold received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1977 and his J.D. from the Yale Law School in 1980.