Jessica R. Friedman

Jessica R. Friedman's legal practice is focused on matters of copyright, trademark, licensing, publishing, media law, and privacy.  She has over three decades of experience handling libel reviews, publishing and literary agency agreements, master service agreements and other commercial agreements, domestic and international trademark clearance, content licenses, terms of use, privacy notices and compliance issues, copyright fair use and infringement analyses, collaboration agreements for co-authors, and software development and licensing agreements.

Ms. Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1981 with a B.A. in History. She  earned her J.D.  from Yale Law School in 1985. She is admitted to practice in the state courts of New York as well as in the federal courts for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York. 

Throughout her career, Ms. Friedman has been involved with many professional organizations, including the New York City Bar Association, where she has served multiple terms on the Copyright and Literary Property Committee and the Trademark Law Committee. For her high ethical standards and long list of successful results, Ms. Friedman holds the highest peer rating possible of AV Preeminent* from Martindale-Hubbell. Fluent in English, she also speaks conversational Hebrew and some French. Ms. Friedman periodically writes for the bulletin of The Authors Guild and speaks on intellectual property issues for the Practising Law Institute and the New York Tech Alliance.

* AV®, AV Preeminent®, Martindale-Hubbell Distinguished and Martindale-Hubbell Notable are certification marks used under license in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell® is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the anonymous opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Rating™ fall into two categories – legal ability and general ethical standards.