As a clerk on the Delaware Court of Chancery in 1992 and 1993, Joel Friedlander spent his nights and weekends writing a law review article on Paramount Communications v. Time Inc., a controversial 1989 case that allowed Time to complete its merger with Warner Communications Inc.

Friedlander, a partner at the five-lawyer boutique Friedlander & Gorris PA in Wilmington, has retained his passion for Delaware law and become one of the premier plaintiffs lawyers in the state’s courts, as he discussed in this week’s Drinks With The Deal podcast.

Friedlander started his career at Skadden, Arps, Slate & Meagher & Flom LLP in Wilmington but helped Stephen P. Lamb launch the predecessor to Friedlander & Gorris in 1995. The goal, Friedlander said, was “to be an elite Chancery firm,” which remained true after Lamb was selected as vice chancellor in 1997 and Andre Bouchard joined the firm before being appointed chancellor in 2014. Bouchard is now a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

The next year, Friedlander won a $76 million judgment against RBC Capital Markets arising from the bank’s work for Rural/Metro Corp. on its sale to Warburg Pincus LLC, and he’s continued to litigate high-profile cases while commenting on Delaware law in articles. He also teaches a law school course on shareholder litigation at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan.

“I enjoy more than anything else the litigation,” Friedlander said. “I see teaching as an adjunct to that. To the extent my students find the class interesting, it’s because I’m trying to bring to bear how we litigate cases and thinking through what makes cases win or lose and how that interacts with public policy and black-letter law.”

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