Awards & Rankings

Fredrikson & Byron shareholder Karen L. Grandstrand will receive the Outstanding Director award for her work on the TCF board of directors.

Sixty-six Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were included in The Best Lawyers in America 2017^© (Copyright 2016 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

For the sixth year in a row, Fredrikson & Byron was named one of the “50 Best Law Firms for Women” by Working Mother & Flex-Time Lawyers LLC.

Super Lawyers named eight Fredrikson & Byron attorneys to the list of 2016 Great Plains Super Lawyers and included three Fredrikson attorneys on the list of 2016 Great Plains Rising Stars.

Super Lawyers Magazine recognized 34 Fredrikson & Byron attorneys as 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyers and 17 attorneys as Minnesota Rising Stars.

Fredrikson & Byron shareholder James L. Baillie was selected to receive the Volunteer Lawyers Network's 2016 John D. Levine Distinguished Service Award.

The IAM Patent 1000 identifies the top patent professionals in key jurisdictions around the world.

Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business ranked eight Fredrikson & Byron practice areas and 25 individual attorneys in its 2016 edition, released today.

The Minnesota State Bar Association recognized 72 Fredrikson attorneys as North Star Lawyers.

Fredrikson is prominently ranked in two recently published Law360 surveys as the highest ranked full service law firm with more than 250 attorneys.

The BTI Consulting Group included Fredrikson & Byron on its “Honor Roll of the Best” ranking for its client service excellence.

Attorneys from Fredrikson & Byron’s Signal Human Trafficking Team and the Larry Stigen Team were selected.

Fredrikson & Byron has been named a Tier 1 Metropolitan “Best Law Firm” in 30 practice areas by U.S. News – Best Lawyers^® in 2016.

On October 8, 2015, attorney Steven Kaplan received the Minnesota Innocence Project’s Never Forgotten Award.

Fredrikson & Byron and Alliance Management received the award for the successful and value-maximizing sale of assets of HEI, Inc. under section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Fredrikson & Byron received the highest award for pro bono matters given by The American Lawyer.

Fredrikson & Byron attorney Kevin P. Goodno was recently elected chair of the American Brain Foundation Board, and is the first chair who is not a neurologist.

Sixty-four Fredrikson & Byron attorneys were included in The Best Lawyers in America 2016^©.