Director of Pro Bono
and Public Interest Programs. Professor Friedman teaches
Interviewing and Counseling and Professional Responsibility. She directs the
Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, and coteaches a seminar that
trains and supervises upper-level law student fellows who teach about the Bill
of Rights in Camden's high schools. She directs the Pro Bono and Public
Interest Program, which includes approximately 15 in-house pro bono projects
and additional opportunities in partnership with legal services providers.
In particular, she directs the Street
Law Pro Bono Project, which trains, supports, and supervises law students who
provide practical law-related education to hundreds of disadvantaged young
people each semester in schools, detention centers, shelters, etc., in and
around Camden. Prof. Friedman inaugurated a Summer Law Institute, a Camden moot
court program and--in partnership with student groups-- a Camden-wide
Constitution Day Project, all opportunities for law students to use their legal
training to empower disadvantaged young people. In 2012, Prof. Friedman and
Associate Dean Angela V. Baker were selected to codirect the LSAC
Discoverlaw.org Prelaw Undergraduate Scholars Program at Rutgers School of
Law-Camden, a residential program designed to increase the diversity of the
legal profession by identifying and preparing students from underrepresented
racial and ethnic groups who may want to become lawyers. Prof. Friedman was
appointed in 2010 to the National Advisory Committee of Equal Justice Works,
which has the mission of mobilizing the next generation of lawyers committed to
advocating for underrepresented people and causes. Professor Friedman
speaks on best practices in law-related education for urban youth. She serves
on the Board of Directors of New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and
completed a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of Camden's LEAP Academy
University Charter School. Admitted to practice law in New Jersey,
New York, and Pennsylvania, she received a Faculty Appreciation Award from the
Women's Law Caucus in April 2009. Prof. Friedman earned her J.D. from New York
University (1987) and her B.A. from Yale University (1984).
