Randy Sue Pollock

California

Law Office of Randy Sue Pollock
286 Santa Clara Avenue
Oakland, CA 94610
United States

Tel: 510-763-9967

Email: rsp@rspollocklaw.com
Web: www.rspollocklaw.com

Professional Biography

Randy Sue Pollock is an experienced trial attorney specializing in criminal defense and complex white-collar cases in both federal and state court. She has over 100 jury trials to her credit and has experience defending many types of charges.

Ms. Pollock began practicing law over 30 years ago after graduating cum laude from U.C. Berkeley and earning a J.D. from the University of California, School of Law, San Francisco. She served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender in the Central District of California (Los Angeles).

Ms. Pollock is always positive and realistic with her clients and provides cutting edge defenses. She has earned the respect of prosecutors and judges throughout Northern California courts including Sacramento, Ukiah and the South Bay. The reputation that she has established over her years of practice assists her in representing people throughout the United States. Recently Ms. Pollock was selected as one of the Top White Collar Attorneys in California for 2024 by the Daily Journal.

Ms. Pollock was named one of the Recorder’s “Attorneys of the Year” in December 2011 for her work on U.S. v. Cerna, one of the largest federal RICO prosecutions ever tried in the Northern District of California. She won the only defense victory of the five-month multi-defendant trial, getting client Walter Cruz-Zavala acquitted of all charges. In the Eastern District of Kentucky, in the only ongoing federal jury trial in the U.S. during the pandemic, Ms. Pollock obtained an acquittal for her client on money laundering and drug conspiracy charges.

Ms. Pollock has established an expertise in the area of sentencing and writes and prepares her own sentencing memorandum rather than relying on outside consultants. She stays in constant contact with each client and remains in contact with many clients long after their case is over.

  • No charges filed in the case of a wife accused of murdering her husband and burying him in their backyard.
  • No criminal or civil prosecution in a case of a grocery company accused of violating reporting requirements by filing structured deposits. All of their frozen bank accounts were returned.
  • No criminal charges filed in a federal investigation of a Google employee allegedly involved in the misrepresentation of drug ads.
  • Acquittal of several charges against an attorney convicted of filing false asylum documents. This was the largest asylum fraud case tried in the United States. The trial spanned four months in the Eastern District of California, Sacramento.
  • Effective representation of a woman charged with transporting 6000 pounds of marijuana in upstate New York. The government filed for forfeiture of her Arizona home as a substitute asset in lieu of a $1 million judgment.  After a court trial, the house was returned to defendant.
  • Either minimum sentences or no filings for many of the marijuana growers and distributors she has represented in Northern California.

  • President, Federal Bar Association, Northern District of California (2024–2025)
  • Arabian Gulf Institute, American Jewish Committee (2024–Present)
  • President-Elect, Northern District of California Chapter of Federal Bar Association (2022–2023)
  • Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Workshop (2022)
  • Oakland Vice President, Northern District of California Chapter of Federal Bar Association (2021–2022)
  • American Jewish Committee, Executive Committee, Member, Executive Committee and Board of Directors (2017–Present)
  • Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Council for the United States District Court, Northern District of California (2017–2020)
  • Chair, Learned Hand Award Committee, American Jewish Committee (2017–Present)
  • Judge, California Attorneys for Criminal Justice National Trial Competition (2014–2022)
  • Judge, California Attorneys Moot Court (2014–2023)
  • Woman Attorneys Advocacy Project (Co-Founder and Organizer of Programs) (2014–2019)
  • United States District Court, Criminal Rules and Practice Committee (2014–2016)
  • Executive Committee on Criminal Justice, Bar Association of San Francisco (2013–Present)
  • California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, Board Member, Seminar Coordinator (1980–2000)

Ms. Pollock has lectured at NORML conferences in Key West, Florida. She also planned and organized all of the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice seminars and trial advocacy programs for over 20 years. She is the President of the Federal Bar Association for the Northern District of California and was recognized as one of the Top White Collar Attorneys in California in 2024 by the Daily Journal.

As a co-founder of the Women Attorney’s Advocacy Project, Ms. Pollock was responsible for organizing programs for women attorneys in federal court.

Recently Ms. Pollock was selected as one of the Top White Collar Attorneys in California for 2024 by the Daily Journal.

“Randy Sue Pollock is a formidable white-collar and criminal defense attorney with decades of courtroom experience. Clients commend her ability to secure acquittals in challenging, high-profile cases, while peers respect her deep trial résumé and long-standing service to the criminal defense community.”
The Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2026