Meet Maritza Fernandez, Our Newest Associate Attorney at Smith Freed Eberhard

Please join us in welcoming Maritza Fernandez, our newest Associate Attorney at Smith Freed Eberhard’s Seattle, WA office!

Maritza is an Associate Attorney licensed in Washington. Her practice focuses in commercial liability defense, personal lines, and construction & development.

Maritza graduated from the University of Miami School of Law in 2022. Prior to that, she graduated with a B.A. in History from the University of Washington in 2019. Before joining Smith Freed Eberhard, Maritza worked as a legal writer and she also interned at the Children and Youth Law Clinic in Miami, where she represented foster youth in juvenile dependency cases. Maritza says her focus has been in Litigation, which is what brought her to SFE.

Maritza was born and raised in Florida. She is a first-generation lawyer. Her hobbies are creative writing, knitting and crochet, and spending time with her family and her cat.