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Robert L. Freedman

Robert L. Freedman

Partner., Dechert LLP

Topics: International & National Security Law • Civil Rights • Free Speech & Election Law • Environmental Law & Property Rights • Administrative Law & Regulation
Robert L. Freedman is a senior partner in the private client group. For more than 35 years, he has advised individuals regarding financial, tax, and family matters, including estate, financial, and retirement planning; wills, trusts, and private foundations; family-owned businesses, pre-nuptial agreements, and other family matters; and will contests and other fiduciary litigation.

For more than 10 years, Mr. Freedman has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America. In 1999, he received the Distinguished Estate Planner Award from the 1,000-member Philadelphia Estate Planning Council. In 2004, he was voted one of the 100 Best Lawyers in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania. He has been the principal drafter of legislation modernizing Pennsylvania's probate and trust law statutes in his role as a member of the Advisory Committee on Decedents' Estates of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He is a member of The American Law Institute and of its members consultative group on the Restatement of Trusts. He is a former chair of the Probate and Trust Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

As an adjunct professor, Mr. Freedman taught wills and trusts and related courses at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple Law School for eight years. He is the co-author of "Can Fiduciaries Get the Best Price in Sophisticated Business Transactions," 17 ACTEC Notes 251 (1992).

Mr. Freedman is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Mr. Freedman is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B., 1962), Columbia University (M.A., economics, 1963), and Columbia Law School (LL.B., 1966). He clerked for two years on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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