Bruce A. Fredrickson
Bruce A. Fredrickson is a member of Webster, Fredrickson, Correia & Puth in the fields of employment discrimination, labor, and civil rights. Mr. Fredrickson is a trial attorney who has represented employees in discrimination and harassment cases, severance negotiations, and other employment matters for 30 years. Among other matters, Mr. Fredrickson battled for over two decades to win the largest employment discrimination award in the history of the Civil Rights Act. The Hartman class action sex discrimination case against the Voice of America and USIA paid out over $590 million divided among 1,100 women. Mr. Fredrickson’s success earned him Trial Lawyer of the Year honors from Trial Lawyers for Public Justice and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association.
Mr. Fredrickson is President of the National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”), a national professional membership organization for lawyers who represent employees in labor, employment and civil rights disputes. NELA and its 67 state and local affiliates have a membership of over 3,000 attorneys who are committed to working on behalf of those who have been illegally treated in the workplace.
A 1973 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Dartmouth College, Mr. Fredrickson obtained his Juris Doctor degree from The National Law Center, The George Washington University, in 1976 with high honors. Since 1986, Mr. Fredrickson has taught Trial Practice at The Washington College of Law of The American University. Mr. Fredrickson has served on the Board of Directors of the National Employment Lawyers Association since 2002, and later served as Vice-President of Public Policy and then President of NELA. Past President of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, Mr. Fredrickson is a current member of the MWELA Board of Directors, as well as a member of the American Association for Justice and the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Mr. Fredrickson was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in July 2000.
Mr. Fredrickson is a frequent lecturer on a variety of topics including winning trial techniques, litigating sexual harassment and sex discrimination issues, maximizing backpay awards, and litigating attorneys' fees issues in employment cases. His audiences include the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, the D.C. Bar, the American Bar Association, the Georgetown University Law Center Continuing Legal Education Program, and the Trial Lawyers Association of the District of Columbia. Mr. Fredrickson is a member of the District of Columbia and the Virginia Bar.
