Paul Friedman, JD, PhD. 

In addition to an undergraduate degree (B.A. with High Distinction and Phi Beta Kapa awards) and a legal doctorate degree (J. D. Cum Laude), Dr. Friedman also holds a post-doctoral masters degree in bioethics (with Outstanding Achievement Award), and a doctor's degree in philosophy involving business, legal and medical ethics (Ph.D. Magna Cum Laude), with his dissertation “Morality and Ethics:  An Analysis of Medical Legal and Business Ethics from a Casuist Perspective”.

Friedman is a Judge Pro Tem with the Maricopa County Superior Court and was the former Special Assistant to the Attorney General for the State of Arizona in litigation against the tobacco industry. This resulted in the largest civil settlement in both Arizona and the nation.

Friedman is a practicing trial attorney partner at O’Steen & Harrison, PLC. He joined the firm in 1996, and practices in the areas of personal injury, ethics, professional malpractice, defective products and wrongful employment practices.

Dr. Friedman is also an Adjunct Professor of Medical and Research Ethics at Midwestern University and the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine where he instructs current health care providers and students in the medical field. Paul is a nationally recognized expert and speaker in the area of bioethics.

Friedman graduated from California Western School of Law in 1989 where he was an editor of the California Western Law Review-International Law Journal and was the chief editor of the California Western Directory.

He was admitted to the State Bar of Arizona in 1989 (section member of trial practice; employment and labor law), the State Bar of Colorado in 1992, the District of Columbia and the Federal Bar in 2004. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Arizona, the United States District Court of Arizona, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

He is a member of the: Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University; American Society of Human Genetics; American Bar Association (section member of health law, science and technology; and labor law); Association of Trial Lawyers of America (section member of toxic, environmental and pharmaceutical torts); National Board of Trial Advocacy; American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; and the American Society for Law, Ethics and Humanities.