Caryn M. Hirshleifer, an attorney who practiced in the field of employment and constitutional litigation, currently serves as a Vice-President and General Counsel of Hirshleifer’s Inc., a fifth-generation family-owned and operated business started by her great-grandfather in Brooklyn in 1905. Prior to that, she worked as an attorney in different capacities for the City of New York, performing general litigation in the New York City Corporation Counsel’s Office as well as serving as General Counsel to both the New York City Fire Department and to Mayor Koch’s Office on Homeless Services. Caryn has also served as an adjunct professor at LIU/Post where she taught Fashion Law to undergraduates.
In 2024, Caryn published In the Face of Catastrophe: How a Traumatic Brain Injury Became a Blessing, a book she wrote with her daughter Jennifer following Jenn’s devastating traumatic brain bleed in 2021.
Philanthropy is an important part of her life, and she has served as a member of the Board of Directors of LICADD since 1988. She has participated in two separate rebuilding efforts in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and participates in a host of other charitable activities.
Caryn is married to David T. Goldman, MD, whom she met while attending Brandeis University in the 1970’s. She has two daughters, Jennifer and Amanda, and spends her leisure time writing, reading, and playing electric bass with high school students, professional musicians, and others who are young at heart.