RLS

Principal

Primary Office: Pleasant Hill
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Phone: 925.609.1699
Fax: 925.609.1690

Education
• B.A., University of California at Berkeley
• J.D., University of San Francisco

Harry S. Stern is the firm’s managing principal. His practice is focused on civil litigation and criminal defense. He has successfully defended peace officers in a number of high-profile trials. Harry has also represented college and professional athletes, candidates for elected office and other prominent people in civil and criminal actions in both federal and state court. He regularly represents peace officers in internal investigations, administrative hearings, coroner’s inquests, grand jury proceedings and related court actions.

Harry teaches classes and seminars on a broad range of topics related to police legal issues. He is often interviewed on television, the radio and in print media regarding his cases and about law enforcement matters.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Harry was a police officer with the City of Berkeley and was a member of the Berkeley Police Association’s Board of Directors.

Harry graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in English Literature. He earned his law degree from the University of San Francisco while working full-time as a police officer. He also attended Chicago’s Loyola University School of Law as a visiting student, where he earned two academic achievement awards and worked at the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in the criminal appeals division. He has also served on the University of California’s civilian police review board and is a member of Cal’s Order of the Golden Bear.  Harry was admitted to practice law in California in 1995 and is also admitted to practice in the Northern, Eastern and Central Districts of the federal courts of California and the federal District Court of Colorado, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California.