A Manhattan-based attorney with a long resume of academic and professional achievements, Theodore H. Friedman laid the foundation for his career in the legal arena when he received a scholarship to attend Harvard Law School in the early 1950s. Employed by Goldman Sachs at the time, Friedman opted to leave the company and the financial sector in general to pursue a Juris Doctor, a choice he made at the behest of famed Goldman financier Gus Levy. Because his scholarship only covered tuition, Friedman was forced to juggle a heavy course load with the demands of work outside of the classroom. Undertaking a series of jobs far outside his chosen vocation to make ends meet, Friedman graduated from Harvard Law in 1956 and quickly established himself as a skilled and driven trial attorney. Primarily representing injured sailors suing for compensation under the Jones Act, he argued and won two major United States Supreme Court cases in his early thirties, one of which caught the attention of famed trial lawyer Louis Nizer.
Theodore H. Friedman spent ten years with Louis Nizer’s firm prior to founding his own practice in New York City. Serving as trial and appellate lawyer in a multiplicity of high profile lawsuits, he extended counsel for more than 80 published court opinions and played a key role in developing case law standards for personal injury award computation, landlord liability, and employer negligence, among other areas. Inducted into the Inner Circle of Advocates, an elite organization he held membership in for 25 years, Friedman also maintained a notable presence in the media as his accomplishments were cited in the New York Law Journal, New York Magazine, and The New Yorker.
Outside of the legal sphere, Theodore H. Friedman remains deeply engaged in promoting Israeli and Palestinian peace initiatives and leverages his background in law to lobby on behalf of The North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry (NACOEJ). Dedicating a great deal of time and energy to the group, he recently helped facilitate the safe migration of 3,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
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Posted on November 30, 2012
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