The most recent edition of New York Magazine’s Look Book features an unusual subject for a fashion article — a lawyer. And not some white-shoe attorney trying desperately to inject some personality into an otherwise drab existence, but an attorney who has carved out an enviable — and exciting — career in sports.
Meet Michael H. Goldberg. He is the executive director of the National Basketball Coaches Association, and has previously been the sports agent that got Mary Lou Retton her Wheaties box. Besides this stellar career, he also has an OG hipster look — despite living on the Upper East Side (don’t worry, he isn’t really an UES person, he prefers going out in Gowanus, natch).
Featured in a jaunty hat and a steller plaid jacket, he has turned his signature bowtie into a marketing tool. That’s right, this stylish attorney uses a signature look to nab clients:
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I started out just wearing them during the summer, but then when I got into the sports business, I found that people would remember me and be like, ‘Oh, you’re the guy with the bow tie.’ And I thought, Well, that’s not bad, that’ll be my little brand.
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Despite insider access to the NBA, he doesn’t want court-side seats to his fav team, the Knicks. Is it because he doesn’t want to witness the carnage up close? Naw, lavish court-side seats just aren’t his bag — probably too mainstream.
Asked his holiday plans, Goldberg plans to take it easy — though many lawyers might find this leisure activity too work-related:
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Seeing The Big Short on Christmas, then watching the ball drop and going to sleep.
Spoken like a lawyer who hasn’t spent the better part of the last four years enmeshed in the tentacles of the RMBS litigation. Must be nice.
The Attorney Who Almost Always Wears Bow Ties [New York Magazine]