Jennifer Friedman's Email & Phone

Jennifer C. Friedman is the Director of the Public Interest Law Center and Associate Director of Public Interest at the Center for Career Development. Jennifer joins Pace after serving as the founder and director of the Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP), a pioneering model legal services initiative at Sanctuary for Families that offers pro bono advocacy to domestic violence victims petitioning for orders of protection in New York City's Family Courts. Since launching the program in 1997, CAP has recruited and trained over 6,200 law students from ten New York City-area law schools and summer associates from over 45 city law firms who have advocated for nearly 5,500 battered women. She is also a litigator, supervising a staff of attorneys who represent domestic violence victims in order of protection, custody, visitation, support, and matrimonial cases and in appellate litigation. Jennifer is a 1993 graduate of Columbia College of Columbia University and a 1998 graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Stone and Kent Scholar and an editor of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review. The New York City Bar Association recently awarded her its Katherine McDonald Award for Service to the Family Courts, and in 1998 she received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship and the New York State Bar Association's President's pro bono award. Jennifer is also the 2003 recipient of the Columbia Alumna Association's Alumna Achievement Award. The Public Interest Law Center (PILC) was founded in 2008 to centralize the Law School's public interest components and to provide counseling, resources, and opportunities for our students and alumni interested in public interest work. The PILC is currently housed in the offices of the Center for Career Development.