Alexandra S. Kazarian

Alexandra Kazarian is a Los Angeles trial attorney whose practice sits at the intersection of criminal defense, constitutional litigation, crisis advocacy, and high-stakes civil litigation. A California lawyer since 2006 and a Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law graduate, Ms. Kazarian began her career in the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office, where she spent eight years trying serious and violent felony cases to juries before building a private practice known for taking difficult cases into court rather than merely managing them from the sidelines.

She is currently a Partner at Geragos & Geragos, where she handles criminal and civil matters alongside Mark Geragos and the firm’s trial team. Her practice includes state and federal criminal defense, serious personal injury, wrongful death, police misconduct, class actions, employment law, and appellate matters. That dual civil-criminal platform gives her an unusually broad command of the terrain sophisticated clients often face: not just the courtroom, but the public narrative, the government investigation, the media cycle, and the long-term consequences to reputation, family, business, and liberty.

Ms. Kazarian’s criminal defense record includes results in some of the most serious categories of prosecution: murder, attempted murder, child-abuse, homicide, rape, domestic violence, firearm-enhancement cases, and strike-prior exposure. Her published case results include a murder dismissal after a successful motion to suppress a client’s statement, first-degree murder charges dismissed, an acquittal in a child-abuse-causing-death case, an attempted-murder premeditation acquittal, an attempted-murder dismissal, and acquittals or major reductions in violent-felony matters.

Her public profile has expanded through involvement in high-visibility cases. In the Menendez brothers’ resentencing litigation, she was part of the defense team with Cliff Gardner and Mark Geragos, securing a reduction from a Life Without Parole (LWOP) to immediate parole eligibility for the brothers. In the Cain Velasquez attempted-murder matter, she and Mark Geragos argued for and won the pretrial release of Velasquez after a contested preliminary hearing. In the Nicholas Gutierrez/LASD recruit crash matter, she . In the federal Matthew Perry ketamine case, the Associated Press identified her as defense counsel for Jasveen Sangha, appearing with Mark Geragos after sentencing.

Ms. Kazarian is also a recognized legal analyst and public commentator. She appears on CBSLA, has provided live analysis of the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation hearings, and has been quoted in People Magazine, Us Weekly, and Fox News, Los Angeles Times, among many other national publications. She is a regular contributor and legal analyst on CBS Los Angeles, Fox News, News Nation,  Los Angeles Magazine, with published commentary on law, politics, culture, and Los Angeles civic life.

Her value to clients is not simply that she has tried cases. It is that she understands how legal pressure actually operates in modern high-stakes matters. Prosecutors, plaintiffs, media outlets, investigators, insurers, employers, and the public can all become part of the battlefield. Ms. Kazarian brings trial experience, public-defense instincts, media fluency, and Geragos-level crisis litigation experience to matters where the stakes are personal, financial, and reputational.

For criminal defendants, that means a lawyer who knows how to attack the government’s evidence, preserve constitutional issues, litigate suppression questions, and prepare for trial from day one. For civil clients, particularly in catastrophic injury, wrongful death, police misconduct, and serious personal injury matters, it means a lawyer who understands how to build a narrative that can withstand scrutiny from opposing counsel, insurers, the court, and the public.

Ms. Kazarian has been selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars and maintains a public-facing practice rooted in serious courtroom advocacy. Her profile is best understood in one sentence: she is the lawyer clients call when the matter is too serious for a script, too visible for a novice, and too important to hand to someone who has never stood in the fire.