William Frentzen

William Frentzen serves as a Lecturer while maintaining an active legal practice as a trial attorney and partner at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, specializing in civil/criminal litigation and white-collar investigations with over 40 jury trials.

His educational credentials include a BA from New College of Florida (1992) and a JD from Tulane University (1996).

His professional expertise spans critical legal domains including Capital Punishment, Securities Law, Intellectual Property, and Cybersecurity, with deep specialization in complex criminal justice systems and high-stakes litigation procedures across federal jurisdictions.

During his 20+ year tenure as a federal prosecutor, he led landmark cases as Chief of the Corporate and Securities Fraud Section and Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force for the Northern District of California, handling the district's largest fraud case by monetary value and most complex criminal trials.