Michele Cobin Friedlander graduated from the University of California Berkeley, and Loyola Law School.  She is a Certified Family Law Specialist and a sole practitioner, who has been a litigator for the entirety of her 23 years as an attorney.  Her law office is completely devoted to family law, though she has also practiced business litigation, insurance litigation, medical malpractice law, and patent litigation. 

She is a member of the Family Law Sections of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the San Fernando Bar Association.  She has served on the panel of volunteer attorneys at the Domestic Violence Project through the L.A. County Bar Association, as well as a panel attorney for the HIV and AIDS Legal Service Alliance. In addition, Michele has served on the panel as a Daily Settlement Officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court for the last five years.

She has completed certification programs in mediation through the Center for Civic Mediation, and the Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University in Family Law Mediation. 

She is the mother of two sons, and a native of Los Angeles, having grown up in the San Fernando Valley. 

Michele has been an L.A. Magazine SuperLawyer every year since 2014.