Awards & Rankings

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 & Byron 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.

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 & Byron practice areas and 24 individual attorneys in its 2019 edition.

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.

Minnesota Lawyer has selected Fredrikson & Byron 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 & 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.