Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Jonathan M. Freiman focuses his litigation practice on appellate matters and complex cases, including transnational disputes. His clients have ranged from Fortune 100 companies to individuals, prominent non-profit foundations and universities, and a sovereign nation. Recent cases include the successful defense for a university of a Second Circuit appeal involving a Nobel Prize winner’s claim to ownership of a patent, the successful defense for a Fortune 500 company of a Connecticut Supreme Court appeal involving a rival company’s multi-million dollar claim to pre-judgment interest, and the successful overturning of a trial court decision in a multinational reinsurance dispute.

Jonathan has been listed in the last four editions of The Best Lawyers in America (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) for his work as an appellate lawyer (for more about the standards for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America, please see http://www.bestlawyers.com/news/default.aspx). He has received Yale Law School’s Albom Award for excellence in appellate advocacy and awards from the Florida Supreme Court and Cuban-American Bar Association. In Connecticut, he has received the Advocacy of the Law Award from the Connecticut Law Tribune, and in October 2007 he became the second lawyer ever to receive the McQuillan Public Service Award from the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association.

Jonathan provides Expert Commentaries on constitutional cases for Lexis-Nexis, and he has written on treaty-based arbitration in the National Law Journal, on state Supreme Court case law for the Connecticut Law Tribune, and on federal jurisdiction and other subjects for several law reviews. He has also appeared widely in print and broadcast media, including NPR, PBS, BBC, and the New York Times, and has lectured widely, speaking on legal issues in Europe, Canada and the United States, at venues including the Federalist Society and a United Nations Expert Roundtable.

Jonathan founded the National Litigation Project (NLP) of the Allard K. Lowenstein Clinic at Yale Law School in 2002 with Dean Harold Hongju Koh. He directed the NLP’s litigation work for several years, and continues to work on NLP cases while serving at Yale as a Lecturer in Law and Research Scholar in Law, as well as a Senior Fellow in the Orville Schell Center.

Jonathan received his J.D. in 1998 from Yale Law School, where he was Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked afterwards for Judge Louis H. Pollak, a former Dean of Yale Law School, and then returned to New Haven, where he served as a Bernstein Fellow and Schell Fellow at Yale before working with Wiggin and Dana.

Areas of Practice

• Appellate
• Litigation
• Insurance

West Practice Categories

Litigation & Appeals, Insurance Law

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1999
• Pennsylvania
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Listed in the last two editions of The Best Lawyers in America (2006 & 2007)
• Advocacy of the Law Award from the Connecticut Law Tribune
• McQuillan Public Service Award from the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Association

Past Employment Positions

• Judge Louis H. Pollak, Clerk

Education

• Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998
  J.D.
  
  Law Journal: Yale Law Journal, Senior Editor
• Oberlin College, 1987
  B.A.
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa

Address

One Century Tower
P.O. Box 1832
265 Church Street
New Haven, CT 06508-1832

Phones

(203) 498-4584

Faxes

(203) 782-2889

Emails

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Websites

http://www.wiggin.com