Helping clients resolve disputes since 1996
Legal Experience
Houlding Law PC, Owner (March 2025-present)
Partner, Friedman & Houlding LLP (January 2015-March 2025)
Of Counsel, Law Offices of Joshua Friedman (February 2006–January 2015)
Associate, Beranbaum Menken Ben-Asher & Bierman LLP (November 2002–February 2006)
Associate, Goldstein and Morris LLP (April 2000–September 2002)
Associate, Law Office of Richard J. Silverberg, P.C. (January 1996–April 2000)
Mediation & Arbitration
Training Experience
Mediator, Private Practice (2025-present)
American Arbitration Association– Labor and Employment Panel Arbitrator (2024-present)
American Arbitration Association– Mediation Panel (2024-present)
U.S. D.C. Eastern District of New York, Panel Mediator (2024-present)
U.S. D.C. Southern District of New York, Panel Mediator (2022-present)
Mediation Center for the Pacific, Panel Mediator (2018-2020)
Mediation Center of the Pacific– Mediation Training (October 2018)
Harvard Program on Negotiation– Mediation Training (June 2008)
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor, University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law (Fundamentals of Employment Law, January-February 2025; Employment and Labor Law, March 2022; Lawyering Fundamentals, Spring 2021; Employment Law, March 2020)
Adjunct Professor, New York Law School (Mentor Mediator, Fall 2023-Spring 2024)
Adjunct Professor, Brooklyn Law School (Legal Writing, Fall 2008; 2015-2016)
Education
JD, University of Minnesota, 1995
BA, Carleton College, 1992
Representative Speaking
Engagements
Speaker, American Bar Association 18th Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference, A Review and Discussion of the EEOC's Guidance on Workplace Harassment, November 2024
Speaker, NELA/NY CLE, Show Us The Money: Putting a Value on Damages in Employment Cases, October 2024
Speaker, NELA/NY CLE, Nuts & Bolts of Hostile Work Environment Cases, October 2023
Speaker, NELA/NY CLE, Discovery After 2015 Amendments, Spring 2017
Speaker, NELA/NY CLE, ESI Best Practices, December 2014
Speaker, NELA/NY CLE, Ethics & Publicity, Spring 2014
Admissions
New York
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals
USDC - EDPA
USDC - SDNY
USDC - EDNY
USDC - NDNY
USDC - WDNY
USDC - EDMI
USDC - WDMI
USDC - NDIL
USDC - CDIL
USDC - DCT
Professional Memberships
New York State Bar Association
Member Since: 2023
National Employment Lawyers Association
Member Since: 2014
National Employment Lawyers Association - New York Chapter
Member Since: 2003