Criminal Defense
Randy Sue Pollock
Principal, Law Office of Randy Sue Pollock · Oakland, CA
Randy Sue Pollock is a criminal defense attorney at the Law Office of Randy Sue Pollock in Oakland, California.
Randy Sue Pollock is a trial attorney practicing criminal defense, with an emphasis on federal and white-collar cases, at the Law Office of Randy Sue Pollock in Oakland, California. She was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975 and has tried more than 100 jury trials in federal and state court.[1][2]
Pollock graduated cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley and earned her J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). Early in her career she served as a Deputy Public Defender in Stockton and as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California in Los Angeles.[2]
Her practice covers federal and state criminal matters throughout California, including white-collar cases involving mortgage fraud, securities fraud, tax offenses, and commodities fraud. In December 2011 she was named one of The Recorder's "Attorneys of the Year" for her work on U.S. v. Cerna, one of the largest federal RICO prosecutions tried in the Northern District of California, in which she obtained the only defense acquittal of the five-month multi-defendant trial. During the pandemic, in the Eastern District of Kentucky, she obtained an acquittal for a client on money laundering and drug conspiracy charges in what was at the time the only ongoing federal jury trial in the United States.[2]
Pollock serves as President of the Federal Bar Association for the Northern District of California (2024-2025) and is a co-founder of the Women Attorneys Advocacy Project. She has served on the Executive Committee on Criminal Justice of the Bar Association of San Francisco, as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council, and as a board member and seminar coordinator for California Attorneys for Criminal Justice. She has lectured at NORML conferences and at the Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop.[2]
She was named one of the Daily Journal's Top White Collar Attorneys in California in 2024, received the American Jewish Committee's Judge Learned Hand Award in 2021, has been listed in Super Lawyers from 2012 through 2025, was included in Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers from 2012 to 2014, and has held Martindale-Hubbell's AV Preeminent rating since 2001.[2]
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