About Susan P. McCourt
Susan P. McCourt Friedel built her legal foundation at two East Coast institutions. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Lafayette College in 1986 and a Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1989. While at Seton Hall she served on the Constitutional Law Journal, an experience that shaped her early approach to legal research and writing.
Graduating in 1989 placed Friedel at the start of a legal career that now spans more than three decades. The record available here does not catalogue her roles or employers. What is clear is that her law school years emphasized doctrinal analysis and appellate-style writing. That training often translates into careful case preparation and an eye for constitutional questions.
Colleagues and contemporaries often point to law journal experience as a marker of intensive legal scholarship. Friedel’s time on the Constitutional Law Journal would have required editing, citing complex authority, and producing extended legal commentary. Those tasks build habits that tend to persist through litigation, brief writing, and regulatory work. They also give a lawyer tools for addressing novel or unsettled legal issues.
Over the years, veteran lawyers take on a variety of roles: private practice, in-house positions, public service, and advisory work among them. The public record provided here does not specify which of those paths Friedel followed. Still, the skills tied to her academic background—research, writing, and analysis—are well suited to contentious work, appellate advocacy, and policy-related matters.
As an attorney whose formal training included concentrated study of constitutional law, Friedel brings an academic rigor to legal questions she handles. That rigor shows in methodical legal writing and in arguments that rest on statutory text and precedent. She is part of a generation of lawyers who entered practice in the late 1980s and adapted to shifts in litigation, technology, and regulatory environments that followed.
Friedel’s career reflects a long-term engagement with law rooted in formal scholarship and practical application. She continues to practice law and, informed by her constitutional scholarship at Seton Hall, focuses her current work on matters that draw on that background.
