Gordon Friedman is the longest-serving Adjunct Professor at Cleveland-Marshall, where he has taught since 1976 and currently teaches Criminal Procedure I. In May 2014, Friedman was the first recipient of the Judge Richard Markus Adjunct Faculty Award at Cleveland-Marshall. The award recognizes excellence in adjunct teaching and the importance of the practitioner-scholar perspective in law school education. As a criminal defense attorney, Friedman has developed a reputation as a defense attorney’s defense attorney. He has been involved in litigation that has changed substantive law in Ohio. Through his brief and oral argument in State v. Lawrence, the Ohio Supreme Court reversed a capital death conviction and created a new standard for mental illness as a mitigating factor in capital cases. In 2009, Friedman received the Al Horn Memorial Award from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Legal Committee for a “lifetime of ceaseless work to advance the cause of criminal justice.” Prior to his successful criminal defense practice, Friedman was an Assistant Cuyahoga County Public Defender and Director of the Free Medical Clinic of Greater Cleveland.