Awards & Rankings

Super Lawyers named five Fredrikson attorneys to the list of 2019 Great Plains Super Lawyers and included five Fredrikson attorneys on the list of 2019 Great Plains Rising Stars.

Super Lawyers recognized 34 Fredrikson attorneys as 2019 Minnesota Super Lawyers and 22 attorneys as Minnesota Rising Stars.

Fredrikson shareholder Loan T. Huynh was named to the Lawyers of Color Inaugural Nation’s Best List, recognizing her tenure in the legal profession and commitment to diversity and inclusion as a minority attorney.

Fredrikson attorneys Kenneth S. Levinson and Lynn S. Linné were honored by the Minnesota State Bar Association Tax Law Section at the Annual Judges Conference on June 6, 2019, in Minneapolis.

Fredrikson shareholder Aubrey J. Zuger was elected to serve as President of the State Bar Association of North Dakota. Zuger has been a member of the SBAND Board of Governors since 2011 and previously served as President-Elect and Secretary-Treasurer.

Attorneys Grant D. Fairbairn, Lora Friedemann, Thomas R. Hipkins, Ann M. Ladd, Kurt J. Niederluecke, Charles D. Segelbaum and David C. West were featured in the 2019 edition of the IAM Patent 1000: The World’s Leading Patent Professionals.

A team from Fredrikson is receiving recognition from The Advocates for Human Rights for its pro bono legal representation of the national Somali 92 Team.

Fredrikson was recently recognized by BTI Consulting as a value driver law firm in the BTI Brand Elite 2019 report.

For the sixth consecutive year, Fredrikson received national recognition for its status as one of the best U.S. law firms for female attorneys, according to two recently published Law360 surveys.

Mergers & Acquisitions Group Co-Chair Sean P. Kearney was named a 2019 BTI Client Service All-Star.

Loan T. Huynh receives the 2019 Excellence Award for Advancing Diversity and Inclusion.

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked nine Fredrikson practice areas and 24 individual attorneys in its 2019 edition.

Fredrikson received a perfect score of 100 on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation’s premier benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

Minnesota Lawyer has selected Fredrikson attorney Alyssa M. Troje as a 2018 Attorney of the Year.

Lousene Hoppe was named a member of the LCLD 2019 class of Fellows and Gauri Samant was named a member of the LCLD 2019 class of Pathfinders program.

Fredrikson shareholders Lora Friedemann, Cynthia A. Moyer, John C. Pickerill and Ann Dunn Wessberg have been named to the 2019 World Trademark Review 1000 (WTR 1000) for Minnesota.

Fredrikson has been recognized as a leader in client service, as the firm has been named to the BTI Client Service A-Team 2019.

Fredrikson has been recognized by the Louisiana Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (LACDL) as a recipient of the 2018 Sam Dalton Capital Defense Advocacy Award for the firm’s pro bono work relating to four death penalty cases in Louisiana. Fredrikson is the first private law firm to receive this award.

Fredrikson has been named a Tier 1 Metropolitan “Best Law Firm” in 32 practice areas by U.S. News – Best Lawyers^® in 2019.