Daniel T. Friedson
Daniel T. Friedson
Daniel T. Friedson is a Partner at The Lynch Law Group where he is in the Real Estate Law, Municipal Law, and Business & Corporate Law Practice Groups. He concentrates his practice in real estate and land use law, corporate counsel, technology licenses, estate litigation, and municipal and general liability matters. Daniel counsels companies and municipalities in complex real estate transactions, corporate governance, and economic development initiatives.
Daniel has extensive experience in real estate transactions and municipal law. In private practice, he serves as general counsel to companies, negotiating capital agreements, licensing deals, and executive hires while providing comprehensive counsel in planning, operations, e-commerce, copyright, and trademark matters. During the shale boom, he furnished advice and instruments for nearly $1 billion in realty transactions and prepared oil and gas title reports covering 150 years of records for over 100,000 acres, including a 60,000-acre due diligence project in the Utica Shale. Between 2007 and 2010, he facilitated approximately $1 billion in government-finance deals for regional economic growth and helped form the Allegheny County Bar Association's Tangle-Title sub-section to address complex title issues.
An experienced practitioner in municipal governance, Daniel formulated and administered over $60 million in real estate ownership agreements, financing, acquisitions, and leasing agreements for the City of Pittsburgh. He represented the City and various boards in conservatorship matters, Orphans' Court proceedings, and Commonwealth appeals. For the Borough of Wilkinsburg, he administered building and zoning codes for major developments and conducted meetings of the Planning Commission and Zoning Hearing Board.
In the realm of corporate law and economic development, he has created blight reduction programs with county bar associations, worked with universities and school boards to pass LERTA legislation for development tax relief, and created and renewed business improvement districts. His leadership in The Denali Initiative developed sustainable business strategies for underserved neighborhoods in St. Louis.
Daniel has served as Associate Clinical Law Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University and Washington University. He designed the Equity Protection Partnership, recognized by NeighborWorks as a national "best practice" for foreclosure prevention. He is the author of publications in the Roger Williams University Law Review and the American Bar Association Journal on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
Daniel earned his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served as Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a secondary degree in Creative Writing from Indiana University, Bloomington. He is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Daniel was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas and St. Louis, Missouri, but has called Pittsburgh, PA home for over 20 years. He and his partner have been married for more than a decade, and he is a devoted dad to one daughter. His hobbies include playing guitar, swimming, writing poetry, and slow-smoking barbeque.
Daniel has extensive experience in real estate transactions and municipal law. In private practice, he serves as general counsel to companies, negotiating capital agreements, licensing deals, and executive hires while providing comprehensive counsel in planning, operations, e-commerce, copyright, and trademark matters. During the shale boom, he furnished advice and instruments for nearly $1 billion in realty transactions and prepared oil and gas title reports covering 150 years of records for over 100,000 acres, including a 60,000-acre due diligence project in the Utica Shale. Between 2007 and 2010, he facilitated approximately $1 billion in government-finance deals for regional economic growth and helped form the Allegheny County Bar Association's Tangle-Title sub-section to address complex title issues.
An experienced practitioner in municipal governance, Daniel formulated and administered over $60 million in real estate ownership agreements, financing, acquisitions, and leasing agreements for the City of Pittsburgh. He represented the City and various boards in conservatorship matters, Orphans' Court proceedings, and Commonwealth appeals. For the Borough of Wilkinsburg, he administered building and zoning codes for major developments and conducted meetings of the Planning Commission and Zoning Hearing Board.
In the realm of corporate law and economic development, he has created blight reduction programs with county bar associations, worked with universities and school boards to pass LERTA legislation for development tax relief, and created and renewed business improvement districts. His leadership in The Denali Initiative developed sustainable business strategies for underserved neighborhoods in St. Louis.
Daniel has served as Associate Clinical Law Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and held teaching positions at Carnegie Mellon University and Washington University. He designed the Equity Protection Partnership, recognized by NeighborWorks as a national "best practice" for foreclosure prevention. He is the author of publications in the Roger Williams University Law Review and the American Bar Association Journal on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law.
Daniel earned his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served as Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a secondary degree in Creative Writing from Indiana University, Bloomington. He is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Daniel was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas and St. Louis, Missouri, but has called Pittsburgh, PA home for over 20 years. He and his partner have been married for more than a decade, and he is a devoted dad to one daughter. His hobbies include playing guitar, swimming, writing poetry, and slow-smoking barbeque.
Representative Experience:
- Formulated and administered over $60 million in real estate ownership agreements, financing, acquisitions, build-out and leasing agreements for the City of Pittsburgh.
- Assisted in closing approximately $1 billion in government-finance deals for regional economic growth from 2007 to 2010.
- Prepared oil and gas title reports for well over 100,000 acres during the shale-boom, including a 60,000-acre due diligence project in the Utica Shale for a major international oil and gas producer.
- Served as Solicitor to Pittsburgh City Council from 2021 to 2024, the first attorney to ever hold this position in the City's history.
- As a legal intern at the ACLU, was part of the team that helped create the Pittsburgh Citizen Police Review Board via Consent Decree in 1997.
Publications by Daniel Friedson:
- "An Access to Justice Case Study: A Practitioner's Call for Leadership in Implementing Homeownership Legal Clinics and Equity Protection Partnerships," Roger Williams University Law Review, Summer 2010.
- "Greenlining Toward a Community of Local Entrepreneurship, Home Ownership, and Quality of Life," American Bar Association Journal on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, Spring 2000.
Education
University of Pittsburgh, School of Law, J.D. (1998)
Indiana University, IN, B.A. (1995)
Bar Admissions
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania