Jocelyn S. Sperling

Jocelyn Sperling is Of Counsel with the Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP (CALG). For more than a decade, she has represented clients in civil appeals and writ petitions in the California Courts of Appeal and the Ninth Circuit. Her diverse practice includes employment, tort, contract, real property, and attorney fee matters.

Ms. Sperling 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. Before joining CALG, Ms. Sperling was an appellate lawyer at Bien & Summers, at her own firm, and litigated cases at a boutique employment firm earlier in her career. She graduated Order of the Coif from UCLA School of Law.

Ms. Sperling 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. Ms. Sperling 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.