
Francine E. Friedman
Senior Policy Counsel
Areas of Focus
- Legal Reform
- Education Policy
- Financial Services Policy
- Regulatory
- Lobbying & Public Policy
- Tax Policy
- Pro Bono
- Tax
- Education
- Cybersecurity, Privacy & Data Protection
- National Security
- Sustainability
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Semiconductors
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Coalitions & Associations
- Private Capital
- Works at the intersection of law, policy and public affairs, handling messaging and outreach to policy-makers.
- Advises in high-stakes litigation and investigations.
Francine provides policy and public affairs guidance to clients facing high-stakes litigation or negotiations. She assists with messaging and third-party outreach and input, including traditional media and op-eds on social media. Francine is particularly adept at distilling complex issues down to high-impact talking points. She also conducts policy-maker outreach and the development of litigation strategy.
Francine has also worked on numerous congressional investigations, internal investigations and commercial disputes. She has developed a keen understanding of the concerns of in-house lawyers, the intricacies of privilege issues and what impacts the bottom line. Francine has a demonstrated ability to find policy, media and other creative solutions to support her clients’ litigation, regulatory or business goals.
- For a leading multinational technology company, managed numerous facets of multiple patent infringement litigation matters. Managed strategies related to media engagement, International Trade Commission (ITC) issues and policy-maker and other stakeholder outreach.
- Helped write and pass the GO Zone Act, which resulted in $1 billion in additional Housing Tax Credits after Hurricane Katrina. Currently advises The Partnership for Job Creation, a group of stakeholders seeking to make permanent the New Markets Tax Credit Program.
- Has worked with a multinational bioagriculture company for nearly a decade as a strategic advisor on many issues facing the company, including antitrust, merger, trade, data security policy and United States Agency for International Development interactions.
- Assisted a medical technology company in seeking an ITC exclusion order of infringing competing products. Developed and successfully executed a public interest comment strategy. Armed with arguments regarding the importance of innovation and intellectual property, the client won in early phases at the ITC and reached a settlement that it considered highly favorable.
- Served as part of a team that helped pass the U.S.-Korea free trade agreement (FTA) and has worked as an advisor to multiple embassies on their FTA’s with the U.S.
EducationJ.D., William & Mary School of Law, 1999
B.A., Georgetown University, 1995
J.D., William & Mary School of Law, 1999
B.A., Georgetown University, 1995
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
Virginia
- Panelist, "Housing Not Handcuffs: Hope for Change at the Federal Level,” National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP), Webinar, July 15, 2020.
- Panelist, “Cybersecurity Policy Implications,” The Cybersecurity Pandemic New York.