Alexandra G. Freidberg

Associate

Alexandra G. Freidberg is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. Ms. Freidberg focuses her practice primarily on environmental law matters, with an emphasis on litigation and counseling under a broad range of environmental statutes. This involves advising clients on shale gas development, including hydraulic fracturing regulation. 

Ms. Freidberg has also worked on chemical handling and transactions to ensure compliance with U.S. chemical regulations, including registration, labeling, and storage requirements. She has filed country-of-origin Requests for Reconsideration and Tariff Classification Protests with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Freidberg was an associate in the Washington, D.C. office of an international law firm, where she was responsible for a wide variety of environmental legal matters and represented lenders, developers, investors, and purchasers in connection with due diligence and contract negotiations relating to energy projects and commercial real estate development. She reviewed permitting requirements for such projects, assessing compliance with NEQA/CEQA, the environmental condition of the property, and distribution of environmental liability. Ms Freidberg also helped to draft DOE loan guarantee applications for energy projects.

Ms. Freidberg earned her J.D. from George Washington University Law School in 2007. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Freidberg worked as an environmental engineer with an environmental consulting firm in the United States and internationally providing technical support for ongoing remedial investigations and cleanup activities at contaminated sites. Her work included technical research, data management and interpretation, presentation preparation, and team coordination. Projects included landfill, shoreline, wetland delineation and mitigation, general soil and groundwater analysis, and radioactive and hazardous materials cleanup. She also performed EPA SPCC inspections for oil facilities, which included checking for regulatory compliance, authoring inspection reports, and participating in EPA training. Ms. Freidberg earned her B.S. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University in 2000. She is fluent in French.

Ms. Freidberg is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and California.