2025 Pillars of Justice Award HonoreeAgnieszka Fryszman
Agnieszka Fryszman is the chair and founder of the Human Rights practice at Cohen Milstein, recognized as one of the best private international human rights practices in the world. Agnieszka represents individuals who have been victims of torture, human trafficking, forced and slave labor and other violations of international law. Her work has included successfully representing survivors of Nazi-era forced and slave labor, filing and settling the first successfully resolved case of fishing boat slavery in the world, and representing Nepali laborers killed at U.S. military bases in Iraq, for which she earned the National Law Journal Pro Bono Award.
Agnieszka has received many of the legal profession’s highest honors, including the National Law Journal’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year Award, and the Human Trafficking Legal Center’s Human Trafficking Advocate of the Year Award.