Experience

Julia Mezhinsky Jayne is a founding partner of Campbell & Jayne LLP.

Ms. Jayne is an experienced and accomplished trial lawyer who concentrates her practice on both white collar and general criminal defense in felony and misdemeanor cases. She represents a broad array of individuals and small companies in state and federal court, at the investigative, pre-trial, and trial stages. Her successes range from outright case dismissals to extremely favorable plea agreements. Ms. Jayne also has extensive jury trial experience in both state and federal court. Ms. Jayne is committed to making sure each client is satisfied with the result of his/her case. She has handled several newsworthy and high-profile cases.
Her white collar criminal defense matters include prosecutions involving mail and wire fraud violations, bank fraud, environmental crimes, money laundering, alien harboring, money smuggling, antitrust, immigration crimes, false statements, identity theft, criminal contempt, tax evasion, and prosecutions with significant asset forfeiture implications.

Ms. Jayne’s experience in general criminal defense runs the gamut -- from violent felonies and vehicular manslaughter to drug possession and sales, sexual assault, firearms offenses, juvenile offenses, theft and fraud cases, robbery, burglary, and driving under the influence.

Before founding Campbell & Jayne LLP with Gail A. Campbell, Ms. Jayne served as a Deputy District Attorney in Contra Costa County. There, she tried all kinds of misdemeanor, felony, and juvenile cases. In her role as a prosecutor, she filed criminal charges, negotiated thousands of cases, and independently tried over 30 jury trials. After leaving the District Attorney's Office, Ms. Jayne worked as a civil litigator at Larson · King in San Francisco. Thereafter, Ms. Jayne worked as a criminal defense attorney and civil litigator at Sideman & Bancroft LLP, where she was involved in the representation of several high-profile white collar criminal defense clients.

Ms. Jayne also served as a legal intern to the Organized Crime Strike Force for the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorneys' Office in San Francisco.

Ms. Jayne is fluent in Russian.

Professional Involvement

• Adjunct Professor of Trial Advocacy at University of California, Hastings College of the Law, since 2003.
• Selected as a Rising Star in Northern California Super Lawyers® for 2009
• Member of the Criminal Justice Act Panel ("CJA Panel") for the Northern District of California
• Co-chair of the Criminal Law & Government Investigations Section of the San Francisco Bar Association's Barrister's Club
• Board member of the California State Bar Criminal Law Executive Committee
• Member, Eastern European Bar Association, Northern California

Education

• J.D., University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco 1999, graduated top 20th percentile
• Oxford University, England , Spring semester, 1998
• B.A., Magna Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995