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Harold J. Friedman is a 1968 graduate of Boston University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York and Maine as well as to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. Between 1971 and 1975, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. After relocating to Maine, he became a partner in Portland law firm and in 1984 he became a founding partner of Friedman Gaythwaite Wolf & Leavitt. He has extensive experience in all aspects of civil litigation, with an emphasis on tort cases involving catastrophic injuries. He is a fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and a member of the Product Liability Advisory Council and the International Association of Insurance Defense Counsel. He is also a former Director of the Defense Research Institute as well as the Vice Chairman of the Products Liability Committee of the Defense Research Institute. He is a past President of the Northern New England Defense Counsel Association, past Chairperson of the Federal Practice Section of the Maine State Bar Association, and was on the Steering Committee of the Federal Court Advisory Panel. A former instructor at the University of Maine Law School on trial techniques, he is also an active lecturer on litigation topics in Maine, nationally, and internationally. He tries cases nationwide. Harold lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife, Mary Mitchell Friedman, an attorney, and daughter Sara, an aspiring performer in Children’s Theatre. He has two grown children, Anna, a paralegal in Boston, and Douglas, a former professional hockey player. Harold enjoys reading about foreign policy, cooking, skiing, fly-fishing, and golf. .
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