FORA.tv Speaker - Stephen J. Freidman

Dean, Pace University, Law School Friedman comes to Pace after serving for the past eleven years as a senior partner at Debevoise and Plimpton LLP in New York, one of the nation’s preeminent international law firms. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of The Equitable Companies Incorporated and its subsidiary, The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Before joining Equitable in 1988, Friedman was Executive Vice President of the E.F. Hutton Group, Inc. (1986-88) and a partner at Debevoise (1981-86 and 1965-77). In 2003-2004, he was noted as one of the Best Lawyers in America in a guide by that name, which cited him for corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law.