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Lessem, Newstat & Tooson, LLP | Criminal Defense Across the Los Angeles Region (h1)
Lessem, Newstat & Tooson, LLP is a Los Angeles-based criminal defense firm with its primary office at 3450 Cahuenga Blvd, Unit 102, Los Angeles, California 90068, and additional offices in Ventura, Santa Barbara, and Palmdale. The firm can be reached at (818) 643-3093 or toll-free at (888) 643-2943, and its attorneys cover a service area that stretches from the San Fernando Valley, where Burbank sits, through Orange County, Santa Monica, and Ventura County. Partners Jeremy Lessem and Jamal Tooson lead a team that includes associates Ricky Worsfold and Taryn Williams, along with of-counsel attorneys Mark D. Lessem and William C. Makler, carrying forward a practice built in part by the late Joshua E. Newstat.
The firm’s criminal defense work spans DUI and traffic crimes, drug offenses, violent crimes including assault and murder charges, sexual offenses, theft and property crimes, weapons charges, and federal cases, with a caseload that runs from misdemeanors up through serious felonies. Beyond criminal defense, the firm has built out practices in mental health law and civil rights, an unusual pairing that reflects the overlap between criminal charges and issues like involuntary commitment or police misconduct claims that can arise from the same set of facts. That range lets the firm handle a case that starts as a straightforward arrest but develops constitutional or mental-health dimensions as it proceeds.
With more than 50 years of combined legal experience among its attorneys, the firm has earned a 10.0 Avvo rating and recognition from Super Lawyers, along with National Top 100 Trial Lawyer and Top 40 Under 40 honors for individual attorneys. Those credentials, spread across multiple lawyers rather than concentrated in one name partner, point to a firm with bench depth across its Southern California offices.
Address: 3450 Cahuenga Blvd, Unit 102, Los Angeles, CA 90068
Phone: (818) 643-3093