Goldman was an assistant professor at Marquette University Law School, General Counsel of Epinions.com, and a technology transactions attorney at Cooley Godward.

[citation needed] He then joined the faculty at Santa Clara University.

[5] In a well-publicized December 2005 post to his Technology & Marketing Law Blog, Goldman incorrectly predicted Wikipedia's demise in five years.

[citation needed] The blog was named to the ABA Journal's Blawg 100 Hall of Fame.

[12] Goldman oversees DoctoredReviews.com, a website designed to combat doctors' efforts to suppress patients' reviews,[13] serves on the board of directors of the Public Participation Project, a group lobbying for federal anti-SLAPP legislation[14] and coauthored an amicus brief in the 1-800 Contacts, Inc. v. WhenU.com, Inc. case with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.