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Shayna R. Frieden
Associate

(602) 530-8137shayna.frieden@gknet.com

Shayna focuses her practice in the areas of commercial litigation and contract disputes, catastrophic personal injury, and criminal defense, including right-to-counsel issues, DUIs, and board advocacy for licensed professionals. In particular, she has developed a niche practice handling administrative cases and representing licensed professionals before the Arizona State Board of Nursing. She also defends clients in matters involving university campus police.

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Shayna R. Frieden

Shayna graduated from ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law with a certificate in trial advocacy and was admitted to practice in 2022, tying for first place on the Arizona bar exam. While in law school, Shayna had a summer internship at Gallagher & Kennedy where she gained practical experience drafting demand letters and pleadings for personal injury and wrongful death actions, criminal defense cases, commercial property disputes, and commercial contract litigation. She also externed at the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One for Judge Bailey, was a Co-Student Director for Legislating Criminal Justice Reform, and was a Certified Limited Practice Student for the Public Defender Clinic.

Shayna was an O’Connor Honors Fellow and earned CALI Excellence Awards in Appellate Advocacy, Bankruptcy, Plea Bargaining, Public Defender Clinic, Evidence, Constitutional Law, and Legal Method and Writing. Additional law school honors/awards include:

  • Dean’s Award for Academic Performance and Contributions to the College of Law
  • Pro Bono Service with Distinction
  • Spring and Fall 2021 Willard H. Pedrick Scholar
  • 2020–21 Vis International Arbitration Moot Court Advocate
  • Best Oralist Award (Plaintiff/Respondent) for Legal Advocacy

See Shayna’s profile on our personal injury website.

ASSOCIATIONS & MEMBERSHIPS

  • Arizona Jewish Lawyers Association, Member
  • State Bar of Arizona, Young Lawyers Division, District 4 Representative

honors and awards

  • Southwest Super Lawyers® Rising Stars, Business Litigation, 2025
  • The National Trial Lawyers, Top 40 Under 40, 2024

News

  • 23 G&K Attorneys Recognized as 2025 Southwest Super Lawyers and Rising Stars - April 17, 2025
  • RivaLee Ferland and Shayna R. Frieden elected District 4 Representative for the State Bar of Arizona Young Lawyers Division - June 27, 2024
  • Judge Denies Request for Dismissal and Gives Green Light for Class Action Suit Filed in Arizona to Continue - March 19, 2024
  • G&K's Professional Women’s Group Hosts "Pi Day" Bake Sale & Silent Auction in Support of Shoebox Ministry - March 15, 2024

Publications

  • The Importance of Reasonable Suspicion - August 1, 2024
  • Author, The State-Created-Need Theory: Where Constitutional Reasonableness Meets Progressive Fairness in the Analysis of Excessive Force Claims, 53 ARIZ. ST. L.J. 1329, 2021

EVents

  • Shayna Frieden Joins Attorney Panel for “Success as a Summer Associate and New Trial Lawyer” at ASU Law School - April 1, 2024

OTHER

Study Abroad
Politics of Global Inequality Summer Abroad Program in Geneva, Switzerland, 2017

PRACTICE AREAS

  • Criminal Defense
  • Plaintiffs Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
  • Litigation

Bar & Court Admissions

  • Arizona, 2022
  • California, 2023

Education

  • Arizona State University
    J.D., summa cum laude, 2022
    Order of the Coif, Order of the Barristers, Note and Comment Editor, Law Journal
  • University of California, Davis
    B.A., 2018

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