Daniel Friedson
Assisitant Clinical Professor of Law
- dtf1@pitt.edu
- (412) 648-1300
- SENSQ 5211
In 1999, while practicing in South St. Louis, Missouri, Mr. Friedson, as primary neighborhood economic development program developer for the South Side Day Nursery, helped start the Economic Development Center, the Cherokee Place Business Incubator Center and the Home Daycare Business Program. He was also a founding member of the Red Brick Community Land Trust, a scattered-site affordable housing land trust and ArtDimensions, a local artist development and art gallery membership organization. All of these programs are still operating today. He also represented the Equal Housing Opportunity Council of Metropolitan St. Louis and numerous minority firms and politicians.
In Pittsburgh, Mr. Friedson started the Community Economic Development Clinic (CED) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law which focuses on legal education and representation for first-time homebuyers, minority and women owned small businesses and nuisance & blight reduction for local and county governments. In 2004, the CED instituted the Equity Protection Partnership (EPP) with Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS), a NeighborWorks organization. Since 2006 Mr. Friedson has been an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs where he teaches Legal Issues for Nonprofit Managers and consults local governments and nonprofit organizations on economic development initiatives through GSPIA's Nonprofit Clinic.
In Pittsburgh, Mr. Friedson started the Community Economic Development Clinic (CED) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law which focuses on legal education and representation for first-time homebuyers, minority and women owned small businesses and nuisance & blight reduction for local and county governments. In 2004, the CED instituted the Equity Protection Partnership (EPP) with Neighborhood Housing Services (NHS), a NeighborWorks organization. Since 2006 Mr. Friedson has been an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs where he teaches Legal Issues for Nonprofit Managers and consults local governments and nonprofit organizations on economic development initiatives through GSPIA's Nonprofit Clinic.
Programs
- Director, Community Economic Development Law Clinic
Currently Teaching
- Community and Economic Development Clinic (Fall 07 & Spring 08)
Selected Publications
Books:
- Daniel T. Friedson, Beaver County (Pa.) Blight Reduction Manual, University of Pittsburgh Community Outreach Partnership Center (2005).
- Daniel T. Friedson (contributing author) Simple Things You Can Do to Save Pittsburgh, The Center for Community Interest (1997).
Articles:
- Daniel T. Friedson, Greenlining Toward a Community of Local Etrepreneurship, Home Ownership, and Quality of Life, 9 Journal of Affordible Housing & Community Development Law 183 (2000).
Awards and Honors
- In 2006, NeighborWorks America “Winning Strategies” magazine did an article on the Equity Protection Partnership between the CED Clinic and Neighborhood Housing Services. Subsequently, NeighborWorks deemed the EPP a “Best Practice.”
Selected Professional Activities
Gruter Institute of Law & Biology Academic Conference in Squaw Valley, 1997, lecturer
5th Annual Faculty Conference & Workshop: Teaching Transactional and Exempt Organization Law in the Classroom, in the Clinic and in Field Placements, lecturer on Social Entrepreneurship as Neighborhood Transformation, Kansas City, 2006.
6th Annual Faculty Conference & Workshop: Teaching Transactional and Exempt Organization Law in the Classroom, in the Clinic and in Field Placements, presenter on the "Results of A National Survey of Transactional Clinics," and small-group facilitator on 4 key areas: The Teaching of Substantive Law in a Clinic, The Teaching of Practical Skills in a Clinic, Student Reflection on their Role as a Lawyer and Client Selection, Chapel Hill, 2007.