Nicole Friant
Pro Bono Counsel
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA

Phone: +1 215 979 1835
Fax: +1 215 689 4856
Email: ANFriant@duanemorris.com

A. Nicole Friant is Duane Morris' Pro Bono Counsel, overseeing the firm's Pro Bono Program and supervising pro bono matters being handled by the firm. Ms. Friant works with referral agencies and legal services organizations to acquire new cases, increase involvement by firm personnel and provide training for new attorneys and summer associates. In addition to leading the firm's Pro Bono Program, Ms. Friant maintains a substantive practice in public interest law, focusing much of her work on child advocacy.

A former associate in Duane Morris' Environmental Law Practice Group, Ms. Friant returned to the firm in 2005 after having served as an environmental consultant at the Green Restaurant Association, a non-profit organization. Prior to becoming the firm's first Pro Bono Counsel, Ms. Friant served on the firm's Pro Bono Task Force and Committee, and was chair of the Duane Morris Child Advocacy Practice Group. Nicole currently serves as a Board Member and volunteer for the Support Center for Child Advocates, and in 2009 was recognized by the organization as a Distinguished Advocate.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, she is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations.

A former judicial clerk to the Honorable L. Anthony Gibson, former presiding judge of the Chancery Division for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Atlantic County, Ms. Friant is a 1998 graduate of Rutgers School of Law - Camden and a graduate of Rutgers University.

Areas of Practice

• Pro Bono

Professional Activities

• American Bar Association
  - Section of Litigation
  - Section of Environment, Energy and Resources, 2001-2005
  --Vice Chair, Public Service Task Force, Environmental Litigation and Toxic Torts Committee, 2002-2003
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
  - Legal Services to the Public Committee
• Philadelphia Bar Association
  - Public Interest Section
  -- Law Firm Pro Bono Committee
  -- Delivery of Legal Services Committee
• Associate Member, Delaware Valley Environmental Inn of the American Inns of Court, 2001-2005
• Association of Pro Bono Counsel

Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Supreme Court of New Jersey

Education

• Rutgers School of Law - Camden, J.D., 1998

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Pro Bono Counsel, 2005-present
  - Associate, 2001-2005
• McCarter & English, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  - Associate, 1999-2001
  
• Superior Court of New Jersey Chancery Division, Atlantic County
  - Judicial Clerk, Honorable L. Anthony Gibson, 1998-1999

Civic and Charitable Activities

• Board Member and Volunteer, Support Center for Child Advocates
• Volunteer, Philadelphia Reads
• Volunteer, Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Eastern Pennsylvania