The Hon.

Allison

H.

Goddard

Judge Allison H. Goddard has served as a Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of California since 2019. She presents regularly on e-discovery and technology and the law for the Federal Judicial Center, The Sedona Conference, and at legal conferences throughout the country. She recently spoke on “AI and the Courts in the Digital Era” at the Congressional Office for International Leadership Conference in Mongolia, and has traveled to Uzbekistan to speak to its Supreme Judicial Council about judicial independence. Judge Goddard also coaches a local high school mock trial team.

Before joining the bench, Judge Goddard handled complex litigation matters, with a focus on class actions and patent infringement claims. Judge Goddard primarily represented corporate defendants at Cooley LLP and her own firm, Jaczko Goddard LLP for the first 10 years of her legal career. In 2011, she shifted to representing plaintiffs at Patterson Law Group, APC. Judge Goddard's trial work includes a bench verdict of $36 million in a consumer class action, and a jury verdict of $4 million in an individual employment case.