About David Gold

In Godwin They Trust

Don Godwin never dreamed of being a lawyer. He recently negotiated Halliburton’s historic $4 billion asbestos settlement, and his client roster has included some of the wealthiest men in Texas, but when he was growing up in a working-class family in Wilmington, North Carolina, Godwin was not even sure he would attend college. His father, Lewis E. Godwin, a car salesman for a local Pontiac dealership, was hard-working, but the family had “limited resources.” While still in high school, …