Leora Friedman is a senior associate with the Health Policy and the Law Initiative.
Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Friedman worked as a public interest fellow and associate at the public interest law firm Tycko & Zavareei LLP. There, she litigated putative and certified class action lawsuits on behalf of plaintiffs against companies nationwide across a variety of issue areas, including health, civil rights, and product defects. Through Tycko & Zavareei LLP’s Public Interest Fellowship program, Friedman also joined Public Justice’s Food Project for three months, during which she co-authored an amicus brief regarding the human health impacts of intensively confining swine in connection with the Supreme Court’s review of California’s Proposition 12.
Prior to joining Tycko & Zavareei LLP, Friedman studied at Georgetown University Law Center, where she authored papers proposing new legal frameworks for addressing the negative health impacts of electronic cigarettes and improving pandemic preparedness through writing-intensive coursework. She also interned for the Department of Justice’s Office of Vaccine Litigation and Consumer Protection Branch. In addition, she was an executive editor for the Georgetown Environmental Law Review, which published her note “Recommending Judicial Reconstruction of Title VI to Curb Environmental Racism: A Recklessness-Based Theory of Discriminatory Intent.” Previously, Friedman was a Princeton Project 55 Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation and aided international health advocacy campaigns at Global Health Strategies.
Friedman received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She received her A.B. in politics from Princeton University.
