Meet the attorneys of Margolin and Lawrence. We are a law firm built around the idea of collaboration. When you hire this firm, not only do you hire Allison B. Margolin or J. Raza Lawrence - you hire the entire team. All of the attorneys at our office are knowledgeable and will be able to help you in all of your legal issues.
Allison B. Margolin, Esq.
Allison Margolin is a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at West Los Angeles Law School. She was on the April 2010 cover of California Lawyer magazine and gave an interview.
She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and earned her B.A. at Columbia University with a degree in Political Science and a Certificate in Writing.
She was profiled on the front page of both the Los Angeles Times and the Los Angeles Daily Journal in 2006 and was recently featured in Hustler Magazine for her work in medical marijuana law.
She has been quoted in magazines ranging from the Los Angeles Daily News, the Los Angeles Times West, LA Weekly, New Yorker, and US Weekly. In addition to Allison’s legal practice, she maintains a written blog, produces videos about well-known legal cases, and has written for the Los Angeles Daily News on such issues as Paris Hilton’s DUI debacle.
Allison has also garnered much praise on the internet and radio, and has received accolades for her unique marketing. In 2004, Allison worked as a legal consultant on the reality jury show “Second Verdict”. She has been featured on the Anderson Cooper Blog, Cal Lawyer, Wall Street Journal blog (twice), and the Jewish Journal.
J. Raza Lawrence, Esq.
Raza graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003, where he served as an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. From November 2004 to July 2009, Raza worked as an associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, where he practiced general litigation, with extensive experience representing individuals, corporations and law firms in cases involving allegations of legal malpractice, employment discrimination, wage-and-hour infractions, products liability, securities fraud, stock options backdating, and First Amendment violations.
Mr. Lawrence received his undergraduate degree with majors in philosophy and physics from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Steven Schwarzschild Prize in Philosophy. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Mr. Lawrence completed a clerkship with the Honorable Morris Sheppard Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Mr. Lawrence has a longstanding interest in protecting civil liberties and individual rights, and has previously worked for the American Civil Liberties Union, the Cato Institute, and the Center for Individual Rights. Mr. Lawrence grew up in Madison, Wisconsin.
Laura S. Stone, Esq.
Laura Stone is a native of Southern California. She was born and educated in Los Angeles, graduating from UCLA with a double major in History and Political Science. She received her Juris Docerate degree from the University of Southern California. She comes from a long line of females in her family that graduated from the same institutions and she began working in her mother’s law office as soon as she could speak.
Ms. Stone attended her first year of Law School at U.S.C. of Northern California, the University of Santa Clara where she finished in the top 3% of her first year class. She returned to Los Angeles to clerk for one of the top trial attorneys in the United States for Tom Girardi of Girardi, Keese and Crane. While attending Law School at the University of Southern California Ms. Stone worked in the Legal Department at 20th Century Fox in her 2nd year and in Business Affairs in her 3rd year. Following her graduation she was an associate at a boutique Real Estate Firm in Beverly Hills, Rubin, Eagan and Feder. After a year or two she segued into the Entertainment Industry: first in management at the prestigious Addis-Wechsler (now Industry Films), then as a literary agent at Agency for the Performing Arts and finally in International Distribution and Production at Solomon International Pictures.
She was lured back to the practice of law by a famous investigator and security specialist/ entrepreneur to head the legal affairs of his organizations. She later joined the Law Offices of Bruce Margolin whom she worked with exclusively for three years practicing Criminal Law and in particular the defense of marijuana related cases. During this time Ms. Stone became active in speaking for NORML the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, which included talk shows and political rallies.
In September of 2001 she opened her own practice with a fous particularly in criminal defense. Beginning in 2013 she become “of counsel” with the law firm of Margolin and Lawrence in Beverly Hills. Her primary office location is 100 Wilshire in the City of Santa Monica.
