Kevin Friedl

Senior Counsel

Kevin Friedl is a Senior Counsel at Democracy Forward.

Before joining Democracy Forward, he was a senior litigator at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, where he handled some of the agency’s highest-profile cases, including two separate constitutional challenges to the agency that were eventually resolved by the Supreme Court. Other work included litigating high-stakes appeals involving novel questions about the CFPB’s authority, defending consumer-protection regulations from industry legal challenges, and helping lead the agency’s amicus program. Kevin represented the CFPB in nearly every stage of litigation, at every level of the federal judiciary, and in courthouses from San Francisco to Boston and from Fargo to McAllen, Texas.

Kevin clerked for Judge David F. Hamilton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Before law school, he worked as a journalist in New York and Washington, D.C., primarily covering politics and the economy. He attended New York University School of Law and the University of Chicago.