In 1983, after graduation from law school, Friedberg joined the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York City where he was an associate in the Intellectual Property and Securities Litigation practices. Friedberg then spent from 1989 to 2000 as an Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, New York. There, he became the Chief of the Narcotics Unit, a Senior Litigation Counsel and the lead cybercrime prosecutor, which then carried the title Computer and Telecommunications Coordinator. He was also a member of the New York Electronic Crimes Task Force. In the cyber arena, Friedberg investigated and prosecuted cases involving hacking, denial of service attacks, propagation of malicious viruses, illegal data wiretapping, and cyber-extortion. His prominent Narcotics case was the investigation, prosecution and conviction of accomplices who assassinated a former editor of the New York City Spanish daily newspaperEl Diario on orders of the Cali Cartel in retaliation for unfavorable news coverage. In 2000, Friedberg joined former F.B.I. Special Agent Ed Stroz in the fledgling Stroz Associates, LLC. which in 2003 became Stroz Friedberg, LLC Friedberg and his firm served as digital forensics experts for Facebook in wake of Paul Ceglia’s lawsuit against the social media company. Friedberg was also brought on by Uber to conduct intellectual property due diligence on Otto, a company that Uber acquired in 2016. He also served as Uber’s witness in the Uber v. Waymo trial in 2018. Friedberg and his firm also served as neutral digital forensics experts regarding Google’s installation in its Street View vehicles of software and hardware that potentially captured snippets of unencrypted wifi traffic emanating from wifi routers encountered by Street View vehicles. In November 2019, Friedberg was appointed by New York GovernorAndrew Cuomo to the state’s Cyber Security Advisory Board to assess the threats to the security and integrity of elections. As Co-President of Stroz Friedberg, Friedberg oversaw geographic and service line growth and, in 2007, co-led with Stroz the securing of a $30 million investment in the firm by Greenhill Capital, Inc. Thereafter, Friedberg led Stroz Friedberg’s acquisitions of Docuity LLC, Data Genetics International, and Billiter, Inc.. In 2010, Friedberg oversaw a $115 million investment in the firm by New Mountain Capital and a 2012 $50 million dividend re-cap. In 2013, Friedberg led the recruitment of Michael Patsalos-Fox, McKinsey’s Chairman of the Americas, to be the firm’s C.E.O.
