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Charles Woodson, Esq.
(415) 244-5213 | [email protected] | 1044 56th Street, Oakland, California 94608 https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-w-6174781a/ 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY 

I am a motivated and skilled attorney who has successfully run my own legal practice for over a decade sustained on word-of-mouth referrals by building strong relationships with colleagues and clients through consistency and exceeding their expectations. 

LAW OFFICE OF CHARLES WOODSON EXPERIENCE Oakland, CA Attorney/Owner May 2009 – Present 

• ●  Civil Advocacy: obtained judgment on all counts for client (defense) in a breach of contract and common counts trial; obtained a Writ of Mandate reversing public pension board’s decision and obtained award of attorney fees; successfully reversed public agency’s termination of employees; successfully litigated civil action in excess of $90K; successfully defended tort action; engaged in pre-litigation representation of a business in an ownership and creditor dispute; represented both businesses and individuals in administrative investigations and adjudications for employment, pension, and licensing matters; reviewed financial and human resources records, including policies and procedures; investigated and advised clients regarding potential civil and criminal claims. 
• ●  Criminal Defense Litigation: tried cases to verdict in state and federal court; assisted privately retained clients and court appointed clients (CJA and Alameda county Court Appointed Program) facing charges ranging from wire fraud to RICO and in administrative actions; directed and supervised fact investigation, prepared witnesses for testimony; examination witnesses in hearings, including deposition under Fed. R. Crim. P. 15(a)(1)), and trial; negotiate plea agreements; research and draft motions and jury instructions; represent and advise clients subject to grand jury subpoenas. 
• ●  Transactional Work: negotiate and draft employment severance agreements; familiarity with federal (e.g., EEOC, HIPAA) and state (DFEH) employment regulatory compliance and administrative redress. 
• ●  Professional Memberships: CJA panel member, Northern District of California; Alameda County Bar Association panel member; member Federal Bar Association, NDCA chapter; member Nat’l Assoc. of Criminal Defense Lawyers. 

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Jocelyn Burton is a Martindale-Hubbell AV rated attorney with over 30 years of legal practice who has served as counsel of record in cases resulting in over twenty published federal court decisions. From 2012-2023, she has been named a Superlawyer in Northern California in employment law. 

From 1994 to 2005, Ms. Burton was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of California. There, Ms. Burton handled hundreds of civil affirmative and defensive cases for federal 

departments and agencies. In addition to the hundreds of cases that she litigated in federal district court, Ms. Burton litigated over 80 civil appeals before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Burton has litigated over 100 cases involving claims of various types of discrimination, including age, race, religion, disability, sex and national origin as well as harassment and retaliation cases. 

During her tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Burton served as both deputy chief and chief of the civil division. As civil chief, she was the first or second line supervisor to 19 attorneys, 6 paralegals and 19 other support staff and she was responsible for managing the civil division and the approximately 1500 civil cases pending annually. 

Before and after her tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Burton worked at large and medium sized law firms. Ms. Burton founded Burton Employment Law in 2011. Ms. Burton has successfully litigated over one hundred matters for her clients. 

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Bilingual forensic linguist & Expert Witness spanish interpreting, translation and transcription Superior Court of California, County of Alameda 2001- present Certified Court Interpreter, Spanish Language, Criminal, Civil, Family & Juvenile 

Freelance Transcription, Translation & Interpreting 1998 – present Clients include: United States District Court, Federal Public Defender, Alameda County Public Defender, Alameda County Criminal Court Appointed Attorneys Panel, Yolo County District Attorney, University of California, San Francisco  Accent on Languages 1998 - 2001 Wire intercept monitoring and tape & video transcription & translation. Clients included DEA, FBI, US Customs and California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement  expert witness testimony·       Yolo County District Attorney – 2022 

Selected essay & Fiction publications·       Blood in the Grove, The Plentitudes, Winter 2022 ·       Priest Killer, Wilderness House Literary Review, Summer 2022 ·       Savior, The Writing Disorder, Fall 2020  translation publications   

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In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with:

The Honorable Tara M. Desautels is the immediate past-Presiding Judge for the Alameda County Superior Court and is currently sitting in a Civil Direct Calendar assignment.  Judge Desautels’ prior supervisory positions include terms as the Assistant Presiding Judge, the Supervising Judge of the Hayward Hall of Justice, and the Supervising Judge of the Wiley E. Manuel Courthouse in Oakland, California.

Appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in April 2010, Judge Desautels has served in assignments across varied case-types, including Juvenile, Family, Criminal, and Civil.  She has been an ongoing member of the Court’s Executive Committee, led the development of the Court’s Strategic Plan, chaired the Court’s Information Technology Committee, and previously served on the Court’s Access and Self-Represented Litigants and Jury Committees, among others.

Statewide, Judge Desautels has served two terms as the Vice-Chair of the Trial Court Presiding Judges’ Advisory Committee to the Judicial Council of California (JCC).  

Prior to her appointment, Judge Desautels was a litigator at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP, specializing in Complex Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense, and Antitrust matters.  Judge Desautels began her legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office where she handled criminal matters county-wide, including as a member of the Felony Child Sexual Assault Team.

Judge Desautels is a graduate of U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly U.C. Hastings College of the Law) and Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

 
Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

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Special thanks to ACBA staff and members:  Hadassah Hayashi, Director (https://www.acbanet.org/)

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Jodie Zerega is a highly experienced legal recruiter and founder of Zerega Consulting, a recruiting firm that specializes in placing attorneys in law firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations. With over 20 years of experience in legal recruiting, Jodie has worked with a diverse range of clients, including private start-ups to multi-national publicly traded companies. She is an expert in legal hiring trends, AI in attorney hiring, legal recruiter benefits, job search technology, social media and hiring, and in-house legal recruiting.

Jodie Zerega started Zerega Consulting in 2003 and has filled hundreds of attorney positions in law firms, corporations, and non-profit organizations across the United States, Canada, and Asia. She has worked with many different clients ranging from private, start-ups to publicly traded companies with over 25,000 employees. Prior to starting Zerega Consulting, she worked as the Director of Recruiting at a multi-national law firm in Atlanta for 9 years. During her tenure there, the firm grew from 185 to 525 attorneys and added 6 offices across the US and 1 in Hong Kong. 

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 Hired by Alameda County Public Defender James Hooley in 1976; spent two plus years rotating to Livermore, then Hayward and Oakland Muni before being transferred to 1225 Fallon in where I stayed until 1980, when I left the office and rented space from George Walker in San Francisco.  Been in private practice ever since. 

To find Peter, just Google him: Peter Goodman, Attorney, San Francisco.

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 In collaboration with the Alameda County Bar Association, Love Thy Lawyer presents an interview with: Hon. Veronica Rios Reddick

Alameda County, Superior Court.

Judge, October 2022 to present.

• Currently presides over jury trials and preliminary hearings at East County Hall of Justice.
• Presided over misdemeanor arraignment, pretrial calendar and traffic court at Wiley Manuel Courthouse.

Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.                                                                                                                                                            Deputy District Attorney, Since January 2010.

• Handled felony and misdemeanor arraignments, misdemeanor pretrials and misdemeanor progress reports.
• Handled felony jury trials and preliminary hearings involving murder, attempted murder, vehicular manslaughter, domestic violence, sexual assault, robbery, arson, child abuse, child porn, grand theft and dissuading witnesses. 
• Exercised discretion to negotiate just resolutions which included non-traditional rehabilitation.
• Handled and tried misdemeanor and felony cases involving juveniles.   

Alameda County Bar Association

The Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) is a professional membership association for lawyers and other members of the legal profession. The ACBA provides access to ongoing legal education; and promotes diversity and civil rights in the Alameda County legal community. Our mission is to promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.

 Louis Goodman
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Special thanks to ACBA staff and members: Cailin Dahlin, Saeed Randle, Hadassah Hayashi, Vincent Tong and Anne Beles. (https://www.acbanet.org/)

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 I don't know if I intended on going to law school, more so that I saw that law school opened up opportunities that no other secondary degree could. I was always good at math and science, and my dad being an engineer, naturally the only logical choice was to go the opposite route to law school. I was fortunate to spend time with influential people in my life during undergrad at UC Irvine, probably the most impactful was my co-founder for all of our companies Curt Brown. I saw him talking about law school, and I saw law school as a way to not only be a traditional practitioner, but to do almost anything. You saw folks from NBA commissioners to entrepreneurs all being lawyers, so I figured it was a good path to pursue.  

 We're seeing a tremendous need for solos and small firms to stick together to better service the totality of their clients' needs, and Overture is that conduit that makes it all possible.

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 GIVELLE LAMANO is a Bay Area criminal defense attorney who truly cares about her clients. She has represented people from all walks of life including gang members in prison appealing their life sentences to first-time offenders who have never been arrested. She is licensed in both state and federal courts and has served as a court-appointed attorney for the Alameda County Bar Association.

Ms. Lamano received the Super Lawyer Rising Star award in 2017 – 2021 for her professional achievement and peer recognition. She ranks in the top 2% of over 65,000 attorneys. She received the Client’s Choice award with Avvo from 2013 – 2016 and has a 10 ranking. In 2021, she was published in INC magazine and is a regular contributor to Forbes.

Ms. Lamano takes a more holistic approach to criminal defense by taking time to understand why a person was arrested in the first place and what factors contributed to an arrest or allegation.  Her goal is simple – get the charges dismissed and help clients avoid legal trouble in the future.

Ms. Lamano is also the founder of the Three Strikes Justice Center, a non-profit organization focused on alleviating the overcrowding of prisons through restorative justice. For 5-years, she served as a Board Member for Insight Prison Project, an organization providing services to prisoners and parolees all over California. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, a non-profit in Oakland that helps reunify incarcerated individuals with their families, and with Defy Ventures, a national non-profit that helps people with criminal histories get a second chance at life.

Preceding her criminal defense work, Ms. Lamano represented low-wage and immigrant workers at the Women’s Employment Rights Clinic at Golden Gate University. Ms. Lamano began working at a young age in various blue-collar jobs so she is no stranger to hard work. She has spoken as a panelist for Women in Leadership and spends her free time with family and Boston Terrier.

If you need to get in touch with Ms. Lamano, please email her at [email protected].

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Contra Costa County Sheriff Inmate Welfare Fund Committee 2020-Present

Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding (CESF) Committee 2021-Present

Contra Costa County Civil Grand Jury 2012-2013

John F. Kennedy University Law Enforcement Advisory Board 2012-2018

Vice-President/Board of Directors 100 Club of Contra Costa County 2016-Present

Vice-Chair of the Employer-Employee Relations Committee American Bar Association.
 
 Vice-President/Board Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, San Francisco/Bay Area Chapter 1990-2019

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