Agnieszka M. Fryszman Agnieszka Fryszman, a Partner at the Firm, joined Cohen Milstein in 1998 and is a member of the International Human Rights and Antitrust practice groups.
She currently represents Indonesian villagers in a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil over torture and extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the defendant’s security forces (a unit of the Indonesian military). For the past several years, she has represented the former "comfort women," women and girls who were forced into sexual slavery by the government of Japan during World War II. Her past successes include cases brought by survivors of Nazi-era forced and slave labor against the German and Austrian companies that allegedly used and profited from slave labor, which were resolved by international negotiations that resulted in multi-billion dollar settlements.
In the Antitrust practice group, she represents small businesses that have been victims of alleged price-fixing in the polyester staple and rubber chemicals markets.
She has represented, pro bono, a number of victims of the September 11 attack on the Pentagon and obtained significant recoveries, including one of the highest awards for an injured survivor, from the Victim’s Compensation Fund. She also represents, pro bono, individuals indefinitely detained without charge by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
Before joining the Firm, Ms. Fryszman was Democratic counsel to the United States House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. She also served as counsel to Representative Henry Waxman, Ranking Member on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee.
Ms. Fryszman graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations and Georgetown University Law Center (J.D., magna cum laude, 1996, Order of the Coif), where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar.
Ms. Fryszman is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New Jersey.
Contact: afryszman@cmht.com Practice Areas:
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