Michael-John Goodnow
One of only two lawyers here whose published phone number matches the one on his bar record. His firm's rideshare page, by contrast, begins a list of who the $1 million covers and stops after a single line.
The bar record
We read Michael-John Goodnow in the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s attorney search. Every row below is the Board’s — this register carries no self-reported practice block at all.
Eleven registers, and this is the first that does not ask the question. Texas prints “No Public Disciplinary History”. Florida gives ten years. Washington shows a blank and warns its search may miss things. New York answers and then sends you to the Appellate Division. California prints a docket and links the court file. Massachusetts says “None” or “Yes” and links the decision. Pennsylvania’s attorney detail has no disciplinary field on it at all. So this listing carries a dash — the third distinct reason for a dash on this site, and the only one that is about the shape of the form rather than the content of the answer. The Board publishes discipline elsewhere; we have not searched those resources, and until we do, no green tick belongs here.
What it does publish is unique in the other direction. Where Washington and Massachusetts record professional liability insurance as a yes-or-no, Pennsylvania prints a sentence in the lawyer’s own voice, with a figure and a rule citation: “I maintain… at least $100,000 per occurrence and $300,000 in the aggregate… as set forth in Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4(c).” It is still a self-report. But of eleven registers, this is the only one that quotes the lawyer speaking rather than summarising them into a checkbox. It also gives a county and a disciplinary district, administrative geography no other register on this site publishes.
What the record shows
The page reads Uber and Lyft’s insurance liability coverage applies to victims who were: and then gives one bullet — Passengers at the time of their injuries; — followed by a second that is not a category of victim at all, and then nothing. The list of who is covered is one item long and ends with a semicolon. No tiers, no figures, no statute, no deadline.Verified
Read literally, it tells drivers of other cars, pedestrians and cyclists that the rideshare policy is not for them. Every other page in this batch says otherwise. We do not think that is what the firm means; we think nobody finished the sentence.Verified
His register phone and his firm’s published phone are the same number — (215) 922-6073. Only he and Farhan Ali can say that among these fifteen.Verified
His record shows the firm as Matkoff Shengold et al; the site trades from msbglaw.com, four initials for a two-name firm. The Board’s record carries no website field to reconcile them.Verified
What the firm says
He says he has been with Matkoff & Shengold since 2000, has argued in the state and federal appellate courts, and has tried many cases to jury verdicts across the Commonwealth.Reported
He says he is admitted before the United States Supreme Court, the Third Circuit and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Board’s record has no field for any of them.Reported
He says he regularly sits as an arbitrator in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and in the Eastern District.Reported
Rideshare
What we haven’t checked
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