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Director of Pro Bono and Public Interest Programs 217 North Fifth Street E226 Camden, NJ 08102 USA
F: 856-580-6286
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Biography
Jill Friedman earned her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from New York University. She is a member of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York Bars.
Ms. Friedman teaches Professional Responsibility and co-teaches the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship in Constitutional Literacy. A Fellow of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, Ms. Friedman directs the Street Law Pro Bono Project, which serves approximately 1,000 young people and vulnerable adults each semester. She also has a role in other pro bono and public interest programming at the law school.
From 1987 until 1993, Ms. Friedman served as a Staff Attorney and Senior Staff Attorney in the Criminal Defense Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York City. Ms. Friedman has consulted to Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pennsylvania and to Public Citizens for Children and Youth ("PCCY"). She authored PCCY's 2005 Court Watch Report on the juvenile justice system in Philadelphia and participated in the editing of its 2007 Report. At Good Shepherd Mediation Program in Germantown, Ms. Friedman co-founded the Family Passages Initiative, a divorce and child custody mediation project serving low- and middle-income families. She facilitated pre-hearing conferences in the Dependency Branch of Philadelphia’s Family Court and has worked as a community mediator. As a member of the founding Board of Directors of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Ms. Friedman was involved in promoting passage of Pennsylvania Senate Resolution 160. S.R. 160 established the Joint State Government Commission’s Legislative Task Force on ADR, with the mandate to identify best practices in ADR and develop a plan to encourage the public’s understanding and use of ADR in Pennsylvania. Ms. Friedman also served on the Board of the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators. From 2005 until 2007, Ms. Friedman held a senior position at Philadelphia Futures, a Center City Philadelphia nonprofit organization with the mission of increasing the number of low-income Philadelphia neighborhood high school students prepared to enter and succeed in higher education.
Ms. Friedman is a Trustee of New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and serves on the Board of Directors of Camden's LEAP Academy University Charter School. She was honored with a 2009 Faculty Appreciation Award from the Women's Law Caucus and serves as a University Sexual Harassment Advisor.