Joshua E. Friedmann

Professional Overview

Josh supports a range of mixed-use and public-private developments, conservation transactions and other projects with external-facing concerns. He helps clients comply with local permitting processes as well as Washington's State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA), Shoreline Management Act (SMA), Growth Management Act (GMA) and other statutes. 

Josh is passionate about un-sticking difficult problems and enjoys helping diverse coalitions to structure and execute creative solutions. He advocates before regulators and in appeals, and he has advised infrastructure authorities, hospitals, schools, nonprofits and government agencies on governance, transactions and risk-management issues. In his legislative practice, he has drafted multiple bills on housing and enviromental matters that went on to be enacted into law.

Before law school, Josh served as an aide to the White House's Council on Environmental Quality, where he worked with agencies, nonprofits, lawmakers and legislative staff to advance the Obama Administration's environmental priorities. More recently, he took leave from law practice to work as staff on the Biden-Harris presidential campaign, and then served as a volunteer ethics counsel to the Presidential Transition, where he helped incoming nominees and appointees comply with conflict-of-interest and public disclosure requirements.