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Jacob Levin, Attorney in Redding

Jacob Levin is the attorney behind Jacob Levin Law in Redding, California, representing people in criminal defense, restraining order, and child custody matters across Shasta County and Northern California. He trained as a trial lawyer at UC Hastings in San Francisco, and he prepares every case as though a jury may decide it.

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Jacob Levin, attorney in Redding, California
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Jacob Levin, Attorney in Redding: Who He Represents

Jacob Levin Law is a Redding practice built around three kinds of cases: criminal charges, restraining orders, and disputes over children. All three turn on evidence tested in a courtroom, and that is where Jacob Levin trained to work.

On the criminal side, he defends felony and misdemeanor charges. On restraining orders, he represents both sides: people asking the court for protection, and people who have been served and need to respond. In child custody and visitation cases, he represents parents whose time with their children is being decided, including cases running alongside a criminal charge or a restraining order.

The office is at 1308 Placer Street in Redding. Clients come from Redding, from across Shasta County, and from Northern California more broadly. Start with criminal defense or restraining orders for how each kind of case moves.

Education and Trial Advocacy Training

Jacob Levin went to law school at UC Hastings in San Francisco. Trial advocacy is where he found the work he wanted to do.

At UC Hastings he was president of the Jewish Law Students Association, and he founded the UC Hastings Public Speaking Association. He received the Student Leader of the Year Award, along with multiple awards in trial advocacy classes.

His own account of that period is simple: he excelled in trial advocacy, and that gave him the motivation to become a trial lawyer. It is the thread that runs through the rest of this page. The skills trial advocacy teaches, building a theory of the case, examining witnesses, and arguing to a factfinder, are the same skills a contested hearing demands.

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Internships in Two District Attorney’s Offices

Before defending cases, Jacob Levin worked on them from the other side of the courtroom, as an intern in the San Francisco and Shasta County District Attorney’s offices.

In San Francisco he worked intensively on the Berry White double homicide trial, and on several other homicide trials. Across both offices his internship work also covered assault and battery cases, DUIs, theft, sexual assault and drug cases.

To be precise about it: those were internships. Jacob Levin interned in those offices; he did not hold a position as a prosecutor. An internship like that offers a close view of how cases are prepared by the side bringing them.

Two Years With Eric Berg in Redding

Jacob Levin worked for two years for attorney Eric Berg in Redding.

Today, Jacob Levin Law handles criminal defense, restraining orders, and child custody and visitation from the office at 1308 Placer Street.

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How Jacob Levin Prepares a Case

He has written about his method in his own words, on the old site and in his case notes. Four ideas come up again and again.

Ask what everyone is assuming

“I don’t begin by asking, ‘How can I explain my client’s conduct?’ I begin by asking a different question: ‘What assumptions is everyone making?’” Conclusions formed by officers, witnesses and prosecutors are not evidence, and he examines every report and statement to see whether the facts support the accusation.

Test every link in the chain

In a homicide case he describes in How I Beat a Murder Charge, he obtained the underlying laboratory and autopsy records and retained an independent forensic pathologist, then tested each step of the prosecution’s causation theory on its own.

Build the facts before court

His own investigations and subpoenas build a defense case alongside the prosecution’s. In restraining order trials he works with an investigator and briefs the appellate case law in advance. As he puts it, effective cross-examination usually starts weeks before trial.

Prepare for a jury

“Many attorneys rarely take cases to trial. I prepare every case as though it may ultimately be decided by a jury.” Sometimes a negotiated resolution is the right outcome and sometimes it is not; his stated job is to identify which, not to push every client toward the fastest result.

One of his favorite verses captures the approach: “The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.” He wrote about it in The One Who States His Case First Seems Right and in The Most Dangerous Words in Criminal Defense.

In Jacob Levin’s Words

The firm’s stated philosophy, as he put it on the original site:

“Levin Law is built on integrity, teamwork, and a true desire to help our clients. We fight for our clients. We outwork the other side, we out-research the other side, we outperform the other side; that is how we win.”

Jacob Levin

Outcomes from his practice are summarized, without identifying details, on the case results page. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

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Common Questions

Where did Jacob Levin go to law school?

Jacob Levin attended law school at UC Hastings in San Francisco. There he was president of the Jewish Law Students Association, founded the UC Hastings Public Speaking Association, and received the Student Leader of the Year Award along with multiple awards in trial advocacy classes. Trial advocacy is what led him to become a trial lawyer.

Did Jacob Levin work in a district attorney’s office?

Yes, as an intern. He interned in the San Francisco and Shasta County District Attorney’s offices, working on the Berry White double homicide trial in San Francisco, other homicide trials, and assault and battery, DUI, theft, sexual assault and drug cases. He held an internship in those offices, not a prosecutor’s position.

What kinds of cases does Jacob Levin handle?

Jacob Levin Law handles criminal defense, restraining orders, and child custody and visitation. Criminal work covers felony and misdemeanor charges. Restraining order work covers both sides: people asking the court for protection and people responding to a petition. The office is in Redding and serves Shasta County and Northern California.

How does Jacob Levin prepare a case?

Every case is prepared as though a jury may decide it. That means independent investigation, subpoenas for records the police did not collect, strategic motions, and cross-examination planned well before the hearing. In his words, the difference between winning and losing often comes down to questioning the assumptions everyone else accepted.

Where is Jacob Levin’s office?

The office is at 1308 Placer Street, Redding, CA 96001, and the phone number is (530) 248-2700. Jacob Levin represents clients in Redding, throughout Shasta County, and in Northern California. Calling the office does not create an attorney-client relationship, so hold back confidential details until representation is established in writing.

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