Biography
Milton R. Friedman was a well-respected New York real estate lawyer, scholar and author who passed away in late 1997 after completing work on the Sixth Edition of Friedman on Contracts and Conveyances of Real Property. He was 93 years old and continued his work on this treatise until his last day.
Mr. Friedman had been a partner in the New York City law firm of Parker, Duryee, Zunino, Malone and Carter, and was a member of the Connecticut and New York Bars for over fifty years. After graduation from Yale Law School, he served as law secretary to Judges Learned Hand and Thomas W. Swan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Mr. Friedman lectured in many educational and professional forums, including the American Law Institute, New York University Law School, Practising Law Institute, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, New York State Bar Association, New York Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, and other state and local bar associations.
He served as Chairman of the Committee on Real Property Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, was a member of its Committee on State Legislation, Special Committee on Rent Control, and sat on the Advisory Committee—American Law Institute on Restatement (Second) of Property (Landlord and Tenant).