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Tina Glandian is a Partner at Geragos & Geragos. Ms. Glandian opened the firm’s New York office which she now heads. Licensed in California, New York, Nevada, and Florida, Ms. Glandian’s multijurisdictional state and federal practice encompasses a wide range of areas from civil litigation to high-profile criminal defense to forays into international human rights matters.

Ms. Glandian’s notable clients include pop singer Kesha Rose Sebert (“Ke$ha“) and pop star Chris Brown. She was recently co-lead counsel in the successful effort to free former MMA heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez from custody. She has also represented former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson and actor Jussie Smollett.

Ms. Glandian serves as a United Nations representative for the Armenian International Women’s Association, which is part of the Commission on the Status of Women whose mission is to promote gender equality and the empowerment of women.

SuperLawyers has repeatedly named Ms. Glandian as a “Rising Star” and The National Trial Lawyers has named her a “Top 40 Under 40.” In 2020, the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys honored Ms. Glandian with the “Top 10 Under 40” award for the state of New York. Ms. Glandian frequently lectures and has served on a number of panels including alongside legal legend F. Lee Bailey at the National Trial Lawyer’s Summit in Miami, Florida.

Ms. Glandian earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication from the University of California, San Diego in 2003, and her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in 2007. She is admitted to practice in all state courts in California, New York, Nevada, and Florida. She is also admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Ninth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States District Court for the Central District of California, and the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.

While attending law school, Ms. Glandian served as an Articles Editor for the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. In this capacity, she served as a research assistant to Mark Geragos in the publication of The Thirteenth Juror: Media Coverage of Supersized Trials in Volume 39, Number 4, of the law review’s journal. As a law student, Ms. Glandian also clerked for the Honorable Dickran Tevrizian (Ret.) at the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In addition, she participated in a summer law program in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she took courses in international and comparative law and the international protection of human rights.