Robert Friedman
202.888.1741 | 1400 16th Street NW, Suite 225, Washington, DC 20036
Robert D. Friedman is Counsel at Gupta Wessler. His practice focuses on representing individuals and classes in high-stakes appellate litigation in cases across the country. He has experience in a wide array of courts at nearly every stage of litigation and has argued in front of the Alabama, Colorado, North Carolina, and Utah Supreme Courts; the Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits; and trial courts from Maryland to California.
Rob’s practice spans issue areas. He has particularly significant experience defending plaintiffs’ verdicts against post-trial motions and appeals. That has included briefing and arguing post-trial motions and serving as appellate counsel in successful defenses of multiple nine-figure verdicts. This work has helped vindicate the rights of individuals injured by mass torts, institutional abuse, and bad-faith insurance practices, among other wrongdoing.
Rob’s practice also focuses on protecting consumers, workers, and people whose civil rights have been violated. He has litigated cases involving consumer-protection laws like the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act; forced labor; qualified immunity; novel issues of federal-state preemption; junk fees; the enforceability of arbitration clauses; and various class certification issues.
Before joining the firm, Rob was a Senior Counsel at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, a public interest litigation organization housed at Georgetown University Law Center, and the Relman Civil Rights Fellow at Relman Colfax PLLC. Rob also served as a law clerk to Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as a Comments Editor on the Law Review and finished first in his class.
