Sandra Smalley-Fleming |

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Sandra Smalley-Fleming maintains a national practice focused primarily on business litigation with an emphasis on financial fraud, securities litigation, securities employment, and shareholder disputes. Sandy has tried a number of cases to verdict in jury trials, court trials and arbitrations around the country. Sandy has also defended parties in regulatory proceedings involving the SEC, FINRA and state regulatory entities. In addition, Sandy has extensive experience representing receivers, trustees, creditors and victims in the context of Ponzi schemes, and has served as counsel to special litigation committees appointed to investigate shareholder class action claims challenging public company mergers and acquisitions.
Sandy is the Co-Chair of the Investment Management and Securities Litigation practice at Fredrikson & Byron. Since 2011, Sandy has served on the Board of Governors of the University of St. Thomas Law School and now serves as the Vice Chair of the Board. Sandy has taught civil procedure, professional responsibility, and feminist jurisprudence as an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law (now Mitchell Hamline School of Law). Since 2010, Sandy has led Access to Leadership, a program she developed and that has been supported by Medtronic, Best Buy, Minnesota Women Lawyers, the Minnesota State and Federal Bar Association, the Woman’s Club of Minneapolis, and Minnesota Monthly. The program provides a public forum for discussing strategies for strengthening and diversifying the leadership in our judiciary, law firms and corporations. The forum draws over 250 participants comprised of members of the federal and state judiciary, corporate executives and members of the local bar. Sandy is continuing this important discussion at Fredrikson & Byron, with a program titled Opportunity to Lead.

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