Professor David A. Friedman teaches commercial law and business law. He joined the Willamette law faculty in 2008. Previously, he was a visiting professor in the Clinical Law Program. As a full-time business law professor, he will teach Contracts I and II and Business Organizations.

Prior to joining Willamette, Professor Friedman was a management consultant for Monitor Group, a global strategy consultancy founded by professors from Harvard Business School. For nearly a decade, he specialized in advising Global Fortune 1000 companies, private equity firms and nonprofit organizations on transactional and other strategic matters. In addition to multinational companies in the telecommunications, financial services, professional services and transportation sectors, his past clients include a venture philanthropy firm, a nonprofit manager of endowments for small educational institutions, and a nonprofit seeking to impact urban public school leadership nationally. Subsequent to working at Monitor Group, Professor Friedman founded his own solo practice, which advised a private equity firm on a major potential acquisition and a political campaign on crime and youth policy.

While attending law school at Yale University, he served as a teaching assistant to James Tobin, who won the 1981 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. Friedman also was named a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics.

Professor Friedman currently serves as secretary of his Yale College class and on the executive committee of Yale Law School Association and is active with the alumni schools committee of the Yale Alumni Association of Oregon.

He is a member of the Oregon and New York state bars.