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John Leonard Burris (born May 8, 1945) [1] [2] is an American civil rights attorney, based in Oakland, California, known for his work in police brutality cases representing plaintiffs. The John Burris law firm practices employment, criminal defense, DUI, personal injury, and landlord tenant law.
García was born in Los Angeles to immigrant parents from Mexico, and is the oldest of seven children and the first generation college graduate. He received his Juris Doctor in 1995 from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and his Bachelor of Art in Politics in 1991 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He began his ...
Michael Rains is a California criminal defense attorney known for representing police accused of misconduct, including the case of the BART Police shooting of Oscar Grant and a successful defense of the Oakland Riders. [1] Rains also won acquittal of the Corcoran 8, prison guards accused of staging fights amongst inmates.
After the laws went into effect in 2019, the then-33-year-old attorney incorporated a law firm in West Los Angeles and began marketing legal services to the incarcerated and their loved ones.
In 2007, the firm was ranked as the 141st largest law firm in the United States on the National Law Journal 250 with nearly 3,000 attorneys. [4] [failed verification] The Cochran Firm primarily does civil plaintiff and criminal defense work.
An attorney at law (or counsellor-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients. [1] As of January 1, 2023, there were 1,331,290 active lawyers in the United States. [ 2 ]
The California Department of Justice is a statewide investigative law enforcement agency and legal department of the California executive branch under the elected leadership of the Attorney General of California (AG) which carries out complex criminal and civil investigations, prosecutions, and other legal services throughout the US State of California. [1]
Rank Firm Revenue (US$) Lawyers Revenue per lawyer (US$) Profit per partner (US$) [2] Country with the most lawyers; 1: Kirkland & Ellis: $6,042,000,000 3,025