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Joakim Tan​

Criminal Litigation Attorney​

Joakim Tan is an established criminal defense attorney with decades of trial experience. Mr. Tan gained extensive experience in felony and misdemeanor litigation while a prosecutor in Texas and Maryland.  For the last 15 years, he has been engaged in criminal defense work in Santa Barbara. He is a member of the Santa Barbara Defenders Association and California Attorneys for Criminal Justice.

 

Mr. Tan earned his J.D. at Cornell Law School, after graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Political Science.  

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Mr. Tan joined the firm in March 2025 and is handling criminal defense of felonies and misdemeanors. He speaks Swedish, German, Mandarin, and Bahasa Indonesia