Our former author

• Author: Justice Gerald Lebovits
• Pages: 6-6

OUR FORMER AUTHOR

JUSTICE HELEN E. FREEDMAN

JUSTICE HELEN E. FREEDMAN wrote the rst edition of New York Objections in 1998 and

updated the work annually through 2015.

Justice Freedman served as a trial judge from 1979 to 2008 and as an appellate judge

from 2008 through 2014. She was the Mass Torts Judge in charge of all New York City

asbestos personal injury and New York State silicone gel breast implant, latex glove, and

diet drug cases. Justice Freedman was assigned to the Commercial Division for eight years.

She retired from the bench in 2014 and has served as a mediator/arbitrator with JAMS in

New York since 2015.

Justice Freedman was a Vice President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and Chair of

its Special Committee on Medical Malpractice. She has also served as the President of the New York State Asso-

ciation of Women Judges, and as co-president of Judges and Lawyers Breast Cancer Alert. Justice Freedman is a

member of the Boards of Directors of the New York County Lawyers’ Association and of the Historical Society

of the New York Courts. She is also a fellow of the New York Bar Foundation and the American Bar Foundation,

and is on the Board of Directors of the New York County Lawyers’ Association.

.Justice Freedman graduated from New York University School of Law and Smith College. She lives with her

husband in New York City, and has two grown daughters.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to a number of people who helped facilitate the writing of this book. My contributing author,

Barbara Rosen Epstein, was invaluable. In addition, David S. Cohen and Kimberly Nickerson were extremely

helpful. My friend, Myron Cohen, negotiated my contract. My ever patient husband, Henry, provided constant

encouragement and support.

— Helen E. Freedman