Goldstein, Russell & Woofter LLC was formed to continue the legacy of Goldstein & Russell, P.C., after founder Tom Goldstein announced his retirement in 2023.

In 2005, Kevin Russell left his job as an appellate lawyer in the U.S. Department of Justice to join Tom and his wife, Amy Howe, in a Supreme Court boutique operating from Tom and Amy’s attic. In addition to running the then-nascent SCOTUSblog, the firm also founded and ran the nation’s first Supreme Court Litigation clinics at Stanford and Harvard law schools.

Over the years, the firm became a home for a number of esteemed Supreme Court practitioners, including Amy, now the Supreme Court reporter for SCOTUSblog; Tejinder Singh, now a partner of Sparacino PLLC; Eric Citron, now a Managing Director of TRGP Capital; and Sarah Harrington, now the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Appellate in the U.S. Department of Justice.

In 2018, Daniel Woofter joined the firm as an associate after clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was later made a partner and, with Kevin, will continue the specialty appellate practice that Tom and Kevin grew for the better part of two decades.

In 2004, Tom Goldstein co-founded the Stanford Supreme Court Litigation Clinic with Stanford Professor Pam Karlan. Amy Howe and Kevin Russell subsequently became clinic instructors as well, along with Jeffrey Fisher on the Stanford faculty. The firm continued its partnership with Stanford through 2013, during which time the clinic represented clients in over 50 merits cases at the Supreme Court.

In 2005, the firm also began running a Supreme Court litigation clinic at Harvard during that school’s January winter term. The firm continues to run the clinic each January, now in partnership with Gupta Wessler PLLC, working with students to provide pro bono representation to individuals and organizations at the Court.