Theodore H. Friedman, Manhattan Attorney

Ted Friedman holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Economics from the University of Michigan, as well as a JD from Harvard Law School. As a young man, he put himself through school with a combination of scholarships and part-time jobs. Ted Friedman also took a year off during his college years to work on a kibbutz in Israel. After college, he spent time in the arbitrage department of Goldman Sachs before earning his acceptance to Harvard Law School.

After completing his JD, Ted Friedman quickly began a successful career in trial law. His first cases centered largely on injured sailors suing in federal court under the Jones Act for injuries sustained aboard ship. By his early 30s, Mr. Friedman was regularly arguing cases in front of federal courts, and he successfully argued twice before the Supreme Court of the United States. During this period, his exceptional legal performance earned him the attention of the firm Phillips Nizer LLP, where he was offered a position.

After 10 successful years with Phillips Nizer LLP, Ted Friedman opened his own law firm based in Manhattan, representing plaintiffs in a variety of commercial and civil cases. During 36 years in the legal profession, Ted Friedman tried more than 200 jury cases and acted as counsel in over 80 published opinions. He has also been profiled in a number of publications, including The New Yorker, New York Law Journal, and Malcolm Gladwell's book, Outliers: The Story of Success.

Many of Ted Friedman's most famous cases involved settlements and verdicts worth millions of dollars, which earned him a recent reference in the New York Law Journal as, “one of the best, if not the best, personal injury trial lawyers in New York City.” In addition to his work as a trial attorney, he has taught law students around the world.