Attorneys in Palo Alto, CA
385 registered attorneys
Palo Alto mid-market register note
Rank #4 of 175CA cities by NY office-row count.
Among 385 non-deceased rows with an admission year, the span runs 1966-2024 (median 2008). Longest-tenured listed office peers: Joseph Ira Hirsch (1966) , Jeffrey D. Saper (1972) , Robert Hanson Miller (1975) .
Palo Alto's register footprint
Palo Alto, CA concentrates in Currently registered (77% of 385 rows; status mix index 6,194).
Among school-named rows, Columbia Law School alone is 42% (school mix index 3,450).
Mix index is HHI×10,000 on OCA status shares and on school-named rows. Distinct from the statewide rank line above.
Palo Alto office-book shape
Palo Alto spreads named employers across 216 firms (mix index 114); Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati leads at 17 of 363 named rows.
ZIP book runs 8 codes; 94304 holds 48% (186 rows).
Judicial dept 1 covers 54% of dept-tagged rows (207 of 4 departments present).
Largest admission decade is the 2010s at 37% of 385 dated rows - no single decade majority.
Derived from employer, ZIP, judicial-department, and admission-year fields on the same OCA extract - not a market-quality ranking.
Palo Alto registration renewal calendar
Next-registration months spread wide here - 12 distinct calendar months on file, no single month over 10% (Oct tops the list).
Renewal years span 2025–2028; 2027 leads at 45% (175 rows).
Median admission year 2008; mean tenure ~19.8 years on dated rows.
Next-registration month/year comes from the OCA extract (birthday-linked renewal window) - an administrative calendar, not a quality or discipline ranking.
Palo Alto law-firm-led employer book
law-firm employers lead this 385-row book at 50% (top named: Cooley Llp).
22 blank-employer rows sit beside the named book.
Also present: corporate (169), education (2).
Roles are heuristic labels on OCA employer strings (government, law firm, education, military, corporate, blank) - not a practice-area or quality ranking.
Register status - Palo Alto
- Registered
Currently registered
298 office rows
- Due to reregister 39
Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday
39 office rows
- Susp. delinquent 37
Suspended, delinquent
37 office rows
- Delinquent 11
Delinquent
11 office rows
What this shows 77% Currently registered among 385 office rows.
| Name | Status |
|---|---|
| Robert H. Aaronson | Delinquent |
| Frederic Joseph Adam | Currently registered |
| Nadia Aksentijevich | Currently registered |
| Melinda Chow Alankar | Currently registered |
| Cyna Jill Alderman | Currently registered |
| Mitchell Samuel Alhadeff | Currently registered |
| Laura Grace Amadon | Currently registered |
| Yushi An | Currently registered |
| Scott Allen Anthony | Suspended, delinquent |
| Taylor Melanie Apodaca | Currently registered |
| Leslie Susan Armin | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| David Nathaniel Armstrong | Currently registered |
| Aruljothi S. Arun | Currently registered |
| Atif Imran Azher | Currently registered |
| Sheila Vera Barrett | Currently registered |
| Amy Winter Bartell | Currently registered |
| Shantanu Basu | Suspended, delinquent |
| Aarthi Kumar Belani | Currently registered |
| Gary Lee Benton | Currently registered |
| David Joel Berger | Currently registered |
| Susan Ashlie Beringer | Suspended, delinquent |
| Steven Vincent Bernard | Currently registered |
| Stephen Patrick Blake | Currently registered |
| Andrew Pillion Boer | Suspended, delinquent |
| Melissa Boey | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| John Harold Booher | Currently registered |
| Kevin Hao Boon | Currently registered |
| Timothy Richard Bowers | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| Matthew Edward Brady | Currently registered |
| Thomas Michael Brower | Currently registered |
| Jennifer Lynn Brown | Currently registered |
| Tristan Martin Brown | Currently registered |
| Ngoc Quang Huy Bui | Suspended, delinquent |
| Sachiko Bussey | Currently registered |
| Thomas Butler | Currently registered |
| Bruce Brian Cahan | Currently registered |
| Kathryn Elizabeth Cahoy | Currently registered |
| Thomas Joseph Callan | Delinquent |
| Alexis Ilagan Caloza | Currently registered |
| Caroline Victoria Camhy | Currently registered |
| Kuangshi Cao | Currently registered |
| Douglas Andrews Cardwell | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| Timothy Michael Carter | Currently registered |
| Cecilia Y. Chan | Currently registered |
| Emily Chan | Currently registered |
| Ei Jae Chang | Due to reregister within 30 days of birthday |
| Jesse Shawn Shin Chang | Currently registered |
| Jeff Chen | Currently registered |
| Julius Chen | Suspended, delinquent |
| Paul P. Chen | Currently registered |
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Palo Alto's nearest office-count peers
Cities nearest Palo Alto on NY office-row count (385).
Source: NY Office of Court Administration via data.ny.gov - attorney registration counts.
Out-of-state peers for Palo Alto
Palo Alto, CA at 385 office rows and 77% Currently registered - matched below on count and active rate (not the nearest-count strip above).
Palo Alto office-row count vs peers
Palo Alto active rate vs peers
Counts and active rates come from the NY State Office of Court Administration registration extract; peers are not a market-quality or employment ranking.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.