Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Zachary Kalinowski – Attorney Profile

Zachary Kalinowski, Attorney at Beles & Beles
Address
The Ordway Building
1 Kaiser Plaza, Suite 2300
Oakland, California 94612

Contact
Phone – (510) 836-0100
Email Me
Fax – (510) 832-3690

The greatest domestic power the state holds is the power to incarcerate with impunity. The legitimacy of this system rests on the constitutionally enumerated protections provided to criminal defendants. My work centers around ensuring that the state honors the promises made on its behalf when the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.

I have been a practicing attorney since graduating from Washington University School of Law in 2022. While a student at Wash University, I practiced as a Student Attorney for the Washington University First Amendment Clinic. There, I defended the rights of individuals against state overreach on a pro bono basis. As the co-president of the Washington University Energy and Environmental Law Society, I also organized events and a broader symposium focusing on racial justice and reform in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd protests.

Upon graduation, I worked for a civil law firm in San Francisco, where my practice focused predominantly on intellectual property and privacy litigation for technology and start-up clients. More important to me was my robust pro bono practice, where I primarily represented individuals who had suffered from police or correctional abuse or had otherwise been wronged by the criminal justice system. This included direct advocacy for impacted individuals as well as encouraging systemic change through impact litigation.

I joined Beles & Beles in 2024 to complete my pivot to criminal law, which was my inspiration to go to law school in the first place in 2019. I am privileged to have the opportunity to protect the rights of those facing the Goliath of the criminal justice system and to act as a representative for both my clients and the Constitution. Your rights are not contingent on the light in which the prosecution paints you. I will work tirelessly to ensure that errors committed in the trial court are identified, argued, and corrected.

Areas of Practice:

Criminal Appeals and Post-Conviction Relief

Education

Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law, Saint Louis, Missouri, 2022

California State University, Chico, 2017

State Certified Specialists
Robert Beles - State Certified Criminal Law Specialist
Anne Beles - State Certified Criminal Law Specialist
Paul McCarthy - State Certified Appellate Law Specialist
Emilio Parker - State Certified Immigration Law Specialist
California Board of Legal Specialization

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    Office Locations

    Oakland Office
    The Ordway Building
    1 Kaiser Plaza - Suite 2300
    Oakland, CA 94612
    Phone: (510) 836-0100
    Fax: 510-832-3690

    Hayward Office
    22320 Foothill Blvd.
    Hayward, CA 94541
    Phone: (510) 836-0100

    Fremont Office
    39560 Stevenson Place - St 217
    Fremont, CA 94536
    Phone: (510) 745-7755

    Pleasanton Office
    4900 Hopyard Rd. - Suite 100
    Pleasanton, CA 94588
    Phone: (925) 460-5400

    Walnut Creek Office
    2121 N. California Blvd
    Walnut Creek, CA 94507
    Phone: (925) 460-5400

    San Jose
    2880 Zanker Road, Suite 203
    San Jose, CA 95134
    Phone: (510) 836-0100

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