Debra Freid

Debra A. Freid is president and managing partner of Freid, Gallagher, Taylor & Associates, P.C. in Saginaw, Michigan, a firm she co-founded. Her practice focuses on employment discrimination and wrongful discharge claims, civil rights and police misconduct cases, and serious personal injury litigation.

Freid earned her bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University in 1978 and her law degree cum laude from Wayne State University Law School in 1981. She is admitted in all Michigan state courts, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and she is board certified as a civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

A past president of the Michigan Association for Justice, she remains on its executive committee and edits its verdicts and settlements reporter. She is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, is active in the Michigan chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates and serves on the State Bar of Michigan’s Negligence Council. Her honors include an AV Preeminent rating, Super Lawyers recognition since 2019 and The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 since 2015.