Richard Friedman

About Richard Friedman

I am a former AMLAW 100 commercial and employment litigation partner and an experienced trial lawyer. I have been repeatedly selected by Super Lawyers for Employment Litigation. My six Of Counsel and I handle: • Counseling, drafting, and negotiating on behalf of executives in connection with severance, employment, and related agreements; • Negotiating and, where necessary, litigating business divorces among shareholders of closely held corporations, partners, and members of limited liability companies; • Business litigation cases, particularly in the New York County Commercial Division on whose Advisory Committee I serve as one of fifteen or so judicially appointed trial lawyers with the eight judges of that court; • Employment litigation matters where we have represented an individual or team aligned with the referring law firm’s corporate client involving, among other things, non-compete, trade secret, and fiduciary duty issues; • FINRA arbitrations involving restricted stock units and other compensation-related issues on behalf of managing directors and other finance personnel against their former employers; and • Internal investigations referred to us by a corporation’s outside counsel so that it can reduce the likelihood of a motion to disqualify that firm as litigation counsel and improve the prospects of defeating any such motion. We provide AMLAW 100 partner and senior attorney level services at reasonable hourly rates.

Experience

1. Managing Attorney

   Richard Friedman Pllc

   Mar 2015 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Notable engagements:• Represented a former senior partner of a prominent consulting firm alleged to have misappropriated trade secrets from his former employer; The matter was resolved on extremely favorable terms for our client.• Represented a former managing director of a preeminent investment bank in a FINRA arbitration involving the Bank\'s termination of \"vested\" restricted stock units on the grounds that the former employee joined a competing entity; The matter was settled on the eve of a four day hearing.• Negotiated the employment agreement for the CEO of Kodak Alaris, a successor to Eastman Kodak, as well as numerous other employment and severance agreements for hedge fund and other financial services personnel as well as others.• Negotiated a non-competition agreement on behalf of a senior former employee of IBM\'s Watson Artificial Intelligence Division. • Helped to save a technology company up to $100 million in a landmark case brought by its former chief operating officer seeking to enforce an option agreement in which the court, after a lengthy trial in which I was co-lead trial counsel, held that the former chief operating officer had breached various fiduciary duties. • Successfully defended a national builder of military housing against multimillion dollar claims arising out of a dispute at West Point and obtained a monetary recovery on a counterclaim.• Obtained numerous favorable decisions from the Southern District of New York and the Second Circuit on behalf of Pfizer Inc. which was seeking to enforce multimillion dollar judgments.• Won a multimillion dollar post-closing arbitration award on behalf of a national paper manufacturing company.• Negotiated a favorable settlement through mediation on behalf of a national real estate mortgage brokerage company in a multimillion dollar federal court lawsuit which resulted in no out-of-pocket payment by the client.

Education

• University of Chicago Law School

  J.D.

• Cornell University

  B. A., magna cum laude (with distinction in all subjects)

Skills

• Arbitration
• Contract Disputes
• Licensing
• Legal Research
• Mediation
• Corporate Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Civil Litigation
• Legal Writing
• Trials
• Business Litigation
• Courts
• Employment Litigation
• Litigation
• Appeals
• Dispute Resolution
• Trade Secrets Litigation
• Breach of Contract
• Trade Secrets