Gabrielle S. Friedman was graduated from Columbia College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1992. She received a Masters Degree in European history from Brown University in 1993, and was graduated from Yale Law School in 2000, where she was an Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and Student Director of the Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization. After law school, Ms. Friedman received a Bosch Foundation Fellowship to conduct research in Berlin, Germany. Ms. Friedman is author of "The Real Harm" in Legal Affairs Magazine, Sept./Oct. 2003, and, with James Q. Whitman, "The European Transformation of Harassment Law: Discrimination versus Dignity," 9 Columbia Journal of European Law 2003. Ms. Friedman was associated with the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, before joining LS&W in 2004.