Jocelyn Sperling handles a wide range of civil appeals.
For more than a decade, she has represented clients in civil appeals and writ petitions in the California Courts of Appeal and Ninth Circuit. Her diverse practice includes employment, tort, contract, real property, and attorney fee matters. Before joining CALG, she was an appellate lawyer at Bien & Summers and at her own firm, and litigated cases at a boutique employment firm earlier in her career.
She was a law clerk and staff attorney at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Jocelyn worked at the Ninth Circuit for five years, serving as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Paez and later as a staff attorney for the Court. She was also a research attorney at the Alameda County Superior Court and an extern in the federal district court. In these positions, she gained insight into effective advocacy and the judicial decision-making process, along with practical knowledge of how the trial and appellate courts work.
Jocelyn is active in the legal community, and writes and speaks on appellate law.
She serves on the Committee on Appellate Courts of the California Lawyers Association’s Litigation Section, where she has led key access-to-justice projects. She is co-founder and vice chair of the Alameda County Bar Association’s Appellate Law Section, and chair of the ACBA’s Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee. Jocelyn also co-authors a chapter on appealability in CEB’s California Civil Appellate Practice and frequently speaks on appellate issues. In addition to her retained work, she routinely handles pro bono work for Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit organization in Oakland that provides free legal services to low-income communities.
Jocelyn graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law.
She was in the first class of UCLA Law’s Program in Public Interest and Policy and served as as an editor of the Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from Duke University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Clerkship
Judge Richard A. Paez
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Law School
UCLA School of Law
Awards
Super Lawyer Rising Star Super Lawyers Magazine
Bar Admissions
California
U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court