Awards & Rankings

Fredrikson & Byron attorney Brett F. Roberts has been elected to a three-year term on the Greater Des Moines Leadership Institute Board of Governors.

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.

Fredrikson & Byron 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.

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

Fredrikson & Byron 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 & Byron is the first private law firm to receive this award.

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

70 Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were included in The Best Lawyers in America^© 2019.

Fredrikson & Byron was named one of the “Best Law Firms for Women” by Working Mother magazine for the eighth consecutive year.

Fredrikson & Byron’s Trusts & Estates Group ranked in Band 1 in Minnesota and North Dakota in the 2018 edition of the Chambers High Net Worth Guide.

Super Lawyers named nine attorneys to the list of 2018 Great Plains Super Lawyers and included seven attorneys on the list of 2018 Great Plains Rising Stars.