The Fritz Law Offices advises businesses from start-up to retirement and everything in-between, as part of the Client’s business plan for success.
We provide Employment Law & HR support to Employers and Non-Profit Organizations. Including: Employment Agreements, Independent Contractor advising, representation before the Labor Commissioner, the EDD (appeals & audits) and the Courts.
We assist with: Buy-Sell Agreements, advising on Trade Secrets and Unfair Competition, Construction Law, Business & Real Estate Transactions, Business Succession Planning, forming a California LLC or Corporation, winding down of a Business, and when necessary, working with a Bankruptcy Attorney to consider that option for your Business.
ATTORNEYS: William F. Fritz, Esq.&Theresa R. Fritz, Esq.
Each of our Attorneys has over 35+ years of legal experience.
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While our primary office is in Santa Rosa, CA, we have satellite offices
in Oakland, CA, and Burbank, CA so we can service all of California.
“An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Our Attorneys offer Clients legal advice and provide them with information and resources to make legal and business decisions that impact their businesses.
While on Retainer, we are available to our clients to support them in their employee relations and business operations and guide them to maintain successful businesses in the midst of ever-changing employment and other government regulations.
"Theresa Fritz has been La Tortilla Factory's Family Business HR attorney for over 25 years. Theresa has always been accessible, quick to respond, and knowledgeable in the ever-changing HR arena. She has helped us execute our family succession plan and has continually advised us on every type of employer-employee issues. We value our employees and we also value her advice. I am happy to recommend her as an employment and human resource attorney for your business."
La Tortilla Factory
"Fritz Law Offices has been of invaluable help to our small business. Since 2018 the Fritz team has been available to support us, keep us informed on all our HR and general legal practices to correctly follow CA Law. Theresa is not only highly professional, informed, and gives timely advice, but is generous, open-minded, and willing to respond to our questions, no matter how small. Both Theresa and Bill form a full-service professional team, while always providing a welcoming atmosphere for clients of diverse backgrounds & origins. We recommend their legal services with no reservations and feel lucky to count them as part of our success team."
For a wide range of HR issues, we can always count on Theresa Fritz and Fritz Law Offices to provide the Museum of Sonoma County with clear, complete, accurate, and timely advice. Fritz is a great friend to the Museum and a great resource for the entire community!
"Theresa Fritz is quite simply the best. Creative, honest and a passionate advocate. Theresa represented me and the Sonoma County Repertory Theater for ten years and her legal counsel was quite simply the best. She has high ethical standards and always provided personalized attention, especially in sensitive situations. I will always want Theresa on my side." Jennifer King, Former Artistic/Exec. Dir. @ "The Rep;" Professor of Theater Arts/Artistic Director @ Napa Valley College
"I have utilized the legal services of Theresa Fritz on both the corporate level as Board Chair for the Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce and personally as a licensed Financial Advisor. Theresa is diligent, conscientious and extremely thorough in her approach to employment law. I would recommend her without reservation."
"For the past 8 years, we have used the services of the Fritz Law Offices. As a president of my small corporation, Bill and Theresa Fritz have served our business to the highest of law practice standards. On a personal level, they have developed living trust and counseled on personal matters. Their honesty along with the manner in which they conduct themselves have created a trusting bond that few in business can achieve today. I highly recommend Bill and Theresa Fritz with the highest of confidence they will provide to anyone a service, unlike any other law firm, could."
Campbell Grading Inc.
"For over twenty-five years Theresa Fritz has handled all of my business affairs from partnership issues to employee manuals. During that time her work has been of an impeccable nature, with a comprehensive perspective in the current legal environment. I could not give a higher recommendation both professionally and ethically."
"As a forensic accountant, I have been able to work with Theresa on a couple of cases. She was very professional, personable and passionate in helping her clients with their legal needs"
"My firm has had the pleasure of working with Theresa Fritz over the past several years. She is always professional, responsive, and solution-oriented. I can recommend her highly"
"Having worked with Theresa in regard to a workers comp claim, we found her to be very knowledgeable, competent, and able to communicate an easily understood course of action. We were very pleased and will continue to use her services in the future"
Red Wing Shoe Store
"Anyone who has been involved in civil litigation knows the inescapable anxiety that comes with it. Bill Fritz worked diligently to minimize that anxiety. Bill's obvious integrity and vast knowledge of the legal system made it easy to choose the Fritz Law Offices to represent me. The office is very efficient and always kept me updated on the status of my case. Thank you, Bill."
"Theresa Fritz has always done a great job for our company. She has represented us in many different H/R dealings and we have always been pleased with her representation. Her response time has always been great. I would highly recommend Theresa for a Labor Law Attorney."
"Never should an employer be without an employment attorney! Theresa Fritz has represented and advised us for many years. Her expertise has been exceptional and we know we're on firm ground with her on our team!"
"We are honored to have Theresa Fritz as a member since 1987! As a matter of fact she is one of our Founding Board Members. Her dedication and commitment to our organization and our community has been priceless! Thank you for all that you do!"
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Sonoma County
"In 2002 our Company faced a serious labor issue which put our business in jeopardy. Theresa brought a thorough understanding of the issues, researched a solution, and successfully navigated us to success. Over the passing years, we relied on Theresa again and again and she has always provided us with professional, practical and rational advice - she has been a bright star in the legal profession"
"Theresa is a quick study who sees the forest through the trees. In the past 15 years we have not executed a contract without her review."
Boston BioDiligence LLC
"Fritz Law Offices brings commitment, compassion and a tremendous amount of knowledge and resourcefulness to all our corporate legal needs for more than 20 years. I have recommended Theresa in the past and will continue to do so in the future."
"Theresa has been an indispensable source of sound advice and counsel. She is calm in the face of challenges, and has provided the assurances and legal product needed to manage the risks facing independent businesses such as ours."
Rack & Riddle Custom Wine Services
"I have known Bill and Theresa Fritz for over 2 decades. To say they are wonderful people would be an understatement. We at the Y are very grateful to the Fritz's. As Y members they are regular donors and help us out by allowing the use of their conference room over the years for a variety of meetings at no charge."
Sonoma County Family YMCA
“It has been such a relief to find a knowledgeable and personable lawyer to help me as an employer. Theresa has made herself available to me on short notice multiple times. I appreciate her valuable guidance and can now be confident as an employer.”
"We love working with the Fritz's, both Theresa and Bill are a wonderful duo that have helped us out tremendously over the years. Always around if I have a quick question, and they have even referred us to some of their clients as well! In addition, they are a green company like us and use solar power in their office as well as electric vehicles as well."
Fancy Flush, Inc.
"I have known and worked with Theresa Fritz for over 15 years in the non profit and arts communities. She is a wealth of information, and an advocate supporter of non profit and arts agencies. I would highly recommend Theresa Fritz. She is compassionate about her work, professional, knowledgeable, easy to work with and is always accessible for questions. I am confident that both Theresa and Bill Fritz provide excellent legal services, and I do not hesitate to recommend them."
"We live in an era of multiple challenges and decisions. Fritz Law Offices has made it possible to operate a small business. Their honesty, professionalism, and genuine concern for their clients is indescribable."
"Theresa and Bill guided me through the formation of my company, all HR and payroll issues for over 7 years, an EDD Audit (they saved me $1200 in penalties), and helped draft the agreement for the sale of my practice. I wouldn’t change a thing."
"We love working with the Fritz's, both Theresa and Bill are a wonderful duo that has helped us out tremendously over the years. Always around if I have a quick question, and they have even referred us to some of their clients as well! They are a green company like us and use solar power in their office as well as electric vehicles as well."
“The legal support from Theresa Fritz regarding employment law has been indispensible. We have held a retainer with her office since our first employee in 2011 and she quickly responds to support us with any issues. She is concise and to the point advising us with the most current employment laws and regulations”
Pool Inspector of Northern California
"We have been doing business with Fritz Law Offices since we first opened over 10 years ago. Theresa Fritz will give you the advice you need to avoid Labor Law problems BEFORE they become fines or lawsuits. Some times she will send a friendly email when there is a change in the law to make sure we are aware of it!!"
El Coqui Puerto Rican Cuisine
William and Theresa Fritz have been a pleasure to have in my legal corner. I have been a client of Fritz Law Offices for several years. Their time, attention, and quality of work has been a huge asset, when on-boarding new clients, and new designers to my team.
