Fred Baron - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• Fred Baron has been honored as a lawyer who helped shape Texas law during the 20th century in Legal Legends: A Century of Texas Law and Lawyering.
• Named as one of the nation's top plaintiff's lawyers by Forbes magazine (2001).
• Named one of Dallas' top lawyers by D Magazine (May 2001 and May 2005).
• In 2001, The University of Texas School of Law endowed a chair in his name.
• Past president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA);
• A member of the Board of Governors of ATLA, as Chairman of the Public Affairs Committee on the Board of Governors, and Chairman of its Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts;
• Past president of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice;
• A member of the Board of Directors of The American Constitution Society;
• A member of the American Law Institute, serving on the Products Liability sub-committee;
• Vice-Chairman of the Toxic and Hazardous Substances and Environmental Law Subcommittee for the American Bar Association;
• Member of the American Board of Trial Advocates;
• Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and Dallas Bar Foundation;
• Former member of the Board of Advisors to the Toxic Law Reporter (B.N.A.);
• Former Trustee for the Civil Justice Foundation;
• Member of the Advisory Board of Texas Citizen Action;
• Director of the Texas Law Review Association;
• Director of the Irving Selikoff Foundation (Charitable Trust);
• Trustee of the Manville Victims Special Trust (Charitable Trust);
• Trustee of the Democratic National Committee;
• On the Texas Advisory Board of the Environmental Defense Fund.