About Mr. Frederick Phillip
Mr. Frederick Phillip Krueger built a legal path that runs from clerking for a state supreme court to opening his own firm. He earned his undergraduate degree in political science from the University of the Pacific in 2004 and completed his law degree at American University Washington College of Law in 2011. Those years set the stage for work in both trial and prosecutorial settings.
After law school he spent time clerking for the Supreme Court of the State of Rhode Island. That early exposure to appellate work gave him a close view of legal reasoning at a high level. He then served as a post-bar fellow in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office in 2011, beginning a stretch of prosecutorial work that would shape the next decade of his career.
Krueger moved into county-level prosecution work in California. He served as a deputy district attorney in San Joaquin County starting in 2012 and then in Calaveras County beginning in 2014. Those roles placed him in court regularly on behalf of the state. He handled preliminary hearings, plea negotiations and trials, and gained experience across a range of criminal matters.
In 2016 he left county prosecution for private practice, taking a position as an associate at the Law Office of Mark Girdner. That work broadened his exposure to defense perspectives and the different demands of representing individual clients. In 2018 he also took on a public role in the local bar, serving as a commissioner for the San Joaquin County Bar Association through 2020.
In 2022 he opened Krueger Legal and serves there as owner and lawyer-at-law. His practice is based in California and draws on years spent in both prosecution and defense roles. He maintains memberships in the California Lawyers Association Criminal Law Section and continues his involvement with the San Joaquin County Bar Association.
Colleagues describe him as a practitioner who combines courtroom experience with an understanding of procedural and substantive criminal issues. He has worked at different levels of the justice system and carries that perspective into case preparation and client conversations. His record shows time in trial courtrooms, in appellate clerking, and in the administrative functions of local bar service.
He now practices at Krueger Legal, handling criminal defense and related matters.
