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Values

What We Believe is What We Do
Empowerment

We believe in self-determination. Thus, we work towards empowering people who often feel powerless. We listen to you, and we provide you with smart legal support and representation at a time when you most need it. We share the tools that will enable you to stand up to abuse of power and discrimination, and in doing so we also empower communities. Through our legal services, we help you learn to advocate for yourselves on the issues that matter.

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Equity

We believe all people are born equal. Thus, a large part of our practice involves challenging and disrupting oppressive and discriminatory practices and abuse. Police officers should not be allowed to hide behind their badges. Employers should not be able to hide behind their desks. Where discrimination exists, we will unmask it. Our advocacy is intentional with the strategic goal to create greater opportunities for everyone.

Integrity

We believe if you do not really care about the cause for which you fight, then the odds of you winning are significantly reduced. Thus, at Burris Nisenbaum Curry & Lacy, we strongly value and uphold the principle of integrity. We really care about the causes, the cases, and the clients for which and whom we fight. We act in good faith, with intellectual honesty and fairness, and expect (indeed, demand) the same from everyone else.

Committed To Protecting The Rights Of The People.

The Law Offices of John L. Burris is committed to justice for all. Our firm serves as a voice for victims of discrimination, abuse of power, and negligence. Mr. Burris is one of the top lawyers in California. We give hope to the disenfranchised who have little expectation of justice by giving them access to quality legal representation in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles metropolitan areas

Case Results

Reginald Oliver v. City of Oakland

Oakland Police keep fabricating evidence and lying about minorities to arrest and prosecute them for supposed “gang” crimes, in violation of a settlement that prohibits …

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Named plaintiff Reginald Oliver claims the Oakland PD continues violating the Constitution, in defiance of the settlement in Delphine Allen e al. v. City of Oakland, USDC No. C-00-4599 TEH, also known as "The Riders" litigation. Read Full Course
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Jane Smith v. City of Oakland

Racial profiling of Asian women by police officer resulting in a class action complaint for damages, declaratory and injunctive relief

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Finding evidence about defendant's post-conviction parole violation unfairly prejudicial "since the jury could have construed that parole violation as character evidence in violation of Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)" Read Full Course
Rodney King
Rodney King v. City of Los Angeles

Rodney King has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to have Judge John G. Davies disqualified from presiding at the trial of …

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Rodney King waited too long to file a malpractice suit against the first of 27 lawyers who represented him in connection with the infamous beating he suffered from Los Angeles police in 1991, this district’s Court of Appeal ruled yesterday. The ruling by Div. Two affirmed Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Ann Kough’s grant of summary judgment to Steven Lerman. King earlier this year dismissed his appeal of Kough’s ruling in favor of two other lawyers sued in the case, Federico Sayre and John Burris. Read Full Course
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Civil rights lawyer John Burris confronts police narratives

Written by Janie Har, AP researcher Rhonda Shafner also contributed to this report. To read on AP News click here OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Before …

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