Freeman is Vice-President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Co., primarily responsible for litigation. He is also involved in newsroom counseling, antitrust and distribution problems, employment relations, and business counseling. Freeman is a frequent lecturer and moderator of panels on First Amendment issues and is co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section’s First Amendment and Media Litigation Committee. He also chairs the Access and Newsgathering Subcommittee of the Newspaper Association of America’s Legal Affairs Committee. He was an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel before he joined the Times Co. and has been an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching media law to journalism students. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School.