Overview
Safiyyah’s practice focuses on assisting clients with their employment-related litigation and compliance matters.
Safiyyah approaches each matter with diligence and a commitment to understanding her clients’ goals. Drawing on her legal research background, Safiyyah’s detail-oriented nature helps her provide clients with practical solutions to their employment law matters.
Prior to joining Fredrikson, Safiyyah served as a student attorney at the University of Minnesota’s Employment Law Clinic, where she advised non-profit employers in employment-related compliance, and she represented employees in unemployment appeal hearings and unpaid wages claims.
Services
Credentials
Education
- University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., 2026, cum laude
- Central Michigan University, B.S., 2023, summa cum laude
Admissions
- Minnesota, 2026
Civic & Professional
Professional Activities
- University of Minnesota Gun Violence Prevention Clinic, Student Attorney, 2025-2026
- Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality, Staffer and Senior Note and Comment Editor, 2024-2026
- University of Minnesota, Legal Research and Writing Student Instructor, 2024-2026
- University of Minnesota Employment Law Clinic, Student Attorney, 2024-2025
Community
- Muslim Law Student Association, Co-President, 2024-2025
- South Asian Law Student Association, Secretary, 2024-2025
- Sexual Aggression Peer Advocates, Peer Advocate, 2021-2023
- Refugee Outreach Collective, Member and CMU Chapter President, 2019-2023
