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Arnold I. Friede is counsel to the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in its Washington, D.C. office. Arnie is a member of the Firm’s Health Law Department. Arnold I. Friede is a widely respected food and drug law counselor and advocate with significant advertising law, health care law, First Amendment, environmental, and commercial and transactional experience. He has a long history of direct involvement in successfully representing clients in FDA-regulated matters beginning as an Associate Chief Counsel in the FDA Chief Counsel’s Office, as well as a broad spectrum of senior in-house legal experience across multiple FDA-regulated industries.
Arnie has had a distinguished career of highly responsible, diverse, and complex positions. He served in government as a law clerk in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, and then with the Federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation in Washington, DC, and as an Associate Chief Counsel in the FDA Chief Counsel's Office in Rockville, Maryland. Afterwards with Richardson-Vicks in Wilton, Connecticut, and then with several divisions of Unilever United States, including as General Counsel of Unilever’s U .S. food business in New Jersey, and then as senior corporate counsel with Pfizer in New York, Mr. Friede has been involved for nearly 35 years in a broad range of FDA and other agency-regulated businesses, including the life sciences, such as pharmaceutical and biotech, medical device, medical information, disease management, and over-the-counter drugs, as well as in the food, cosmetic, chemical and other industries. He has a breadth and depth of experience across an array of substantive legal areas and business operations.
Mr. Friede received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law. In addition to numerous other professional affiliations, he is a past-Chairman of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law Section of the New York State Bar Association.
Arnie is a frequent speaker and author on a wide range of topics of interest to the pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and life science industries generally.
Mr. Friede is admitted to practice in California, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Maryland.
Education:
George Washington University Law School, J.D. (Order of the Coif)
University of Pittsburgh, B.S. (with honors) | 