About Paul
Paul Friedman combines academic training in ethics and bioethics with decades of courtroom work and forensic consulting. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Ethics, an M.A. in Bioethics, a J.D. and a B.A., and has built a practice that crosses litigation, expert analysis and dispute resolution.
Friedman completed undergraduate studies at the University of Arizona (B.A., 1985). He earned a J.D. from California Western School of Law (1989) before pursuing graduate study in bioethics at Midwestern University (M.A., 2004) and a doctorate in comparative ethics from LaCrosse University (Ph.D., 2006). Those academic credentials underpin a practice that has long engaged medical-legal issues, professional regulation and serious personal-injury work.
He is admitted to practice in Arizona and Colorado, the District of Columbia, the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Early in his career he also worked in real estate, holding salesperson and broker registrations with the Arizona Department of Real Estate. Over time his work shifted toward litigation and forensic evaluation, and he pursued board certifications that reflect that path: civil trial advocacy from the National Board of Trial Advocacy, civil pretrial practice certification from the National Board of Legal Specialty Certification and a State Bar of Arizona specialty in injury and wrongful death litigation.
Friedman’s roles in court-related and regulatory bodies are numerous. He has served as a settlement officer and as a hearing officer for Arizona Supreme Court lawyer-discipline matters. He has been a member of the Arizona Supreme Court Commission on Judicial Performance and the Board of Legal Document Preparers. He has also served on the Arizona State Bar Fee Arbitration Committee as an arbitrator and continues to participate on panels that hear disciplinary and fee issues.
Alongside his regulatory work, Friedman has been active in forensic organizations. He is a diplomate and a certified forensic consultant through the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute and has held certified-instructor status there. He has been associated with the American Board of Trial Advocates and has sat on advisory and task-force bodies concerned with the delivery of legal services and judicial performance.
During 2018 and 2019 he chaired the City of Tempe Judicial Advisory Board and participated in Arizona Supreme Court task forces addressing legal services. He has served on advisory boards for professional groups and on legal-standards panels that intersect law, medicine and ethics.
Friedman practices out of firm offices associated with BURG SIMPSON ELDREDGE HERSH JARDINE, PC and continues to handle civil litigation, wrongful-death and injury cases, serve as an arbitrator and provide forensic consulting and expert analysis in complex matters.
