About Kathryn J.
Kathryn J. Fritz graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1985 after completing an undergraduate degree in political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1981. Her academic path combined a liberal arts foundation with legal training in Washington, D.C., and set the stage for a practice that spans state and federal courts.
After law school, Fritz built a practice that moves between trial and appellate work. She is admitted in California and New York and holds admissions to several federal trial and appellate courts. Those admissions include the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 5th and 9th Circuits and multiple U.S. District Courts, among them the Central, Northern and Eastern Districts of California as well as the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Southern District of California. That reach allows her to represent clients in matters that proceed through both trial and appellate stages.
Fritz’s career record includes time at Fenwick & West LLP. At that firm she has worked on matters that required appearances in federal district courts and circuit courts of appeal. Her docket includes litigation that engages complex procedural and substantive questions, and she has experience briefing issues at the appellate level.
Colleagues describe Fritz as methodical in approach and precise in legal writing. Her courtroom work shows an emphasis on careful preparation and tight advocacy. She is comfortable handling the procedural demands of federal litigation, from jurisdictional disputes to post-trial motions and appeals. Her admissions to multiple circuits reflect a practice that often crosses state lines and proceeds to higher courts when necessary.
Outside the courtroom, Fritz’s background in political science informs her analytical style. She reads legal problems through the lens of institutional rules and precedent. That perspective surfaces in how she frames arguments and in her attention to the interplay between trial records and appellate standards of review.
She maintains an office at Fenwick & West LLP and continues to take cases that require federal trial or appellate litigation. Her current practice concentrates on federal and appellate litigation.
