BUFFALO, NY – Scott E. Friedman, Lippes Mathias LLP Partner, and the firm’s Immediate Past Chairman, has joined the University at Buffalo Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness’ (CLOE) newly-formed Leadership Roundtable, a panel of experts who represent best leadership practice and help guide CLOE toward its mission. As a member of the Leadership Roundtable, Scott will be invited to attend one to two annual roundtable discussions with the University at Buffalo School of Management.

Serving as the Team Co-Leader for both Lippes Mathias’s Startups & Venture Capital and Family Business Practice Teams, Scott E. Friedman is a partner and the immediate past chairman of Lippes Mathias, the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Varia Ventures, a management consulting firm with a capital raising platform, and a General Partner in Impact Capital of New York, LLC, an Upstate New York venture capital fund. The author of seven books and over 100 articles on business, he serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the University at Buffalo’s School of Management. Scott is also a frequent speaker at professional, university and corporate sponsored events across the United States on a variety of topics, including entrepreneurship, innovation, and family businesses.

Lippes Mathias is a full-service law firm with more than 135 attorneys serving clients regionally, nationally, and internationally. With offices in Buffalo, Albany, Rochester, and New York, N.Y.; Greater Toronto Area; Chicago, Ill.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Washington, D.C., the firm represents publicly and privately-owned companies, private equity and venture capital firms, real estate developers, financial institutions, municipalities, governmental entities, and individuals.