Attorney Tom Yu is a United States Marine Corps veteran and an honorably retired law enforcement officer. Tom represents police officers, federal agents, prosecutors, and CCW holders in the State of California and the District of Columbia in administrative, civil, and criminal defense.

Before becoming an attorney, Tom was a deputy sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. His assignments included custody, patrol, and detectives assigned to the Operation Safe Streets Bureau (OSS), Homicide Gang Task Force, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation- Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, assigned to the Los Angeles Police Department’s Gang and Narcotics Division.

Tom passionately shares his knowledge and expertise in forensic cell phone analysis, use-of-force issues, gang investigations, search and seizures, Brady issues, along with police disciplinary matters at several POST-approved conferences and has been a frequent keynote speaker at seminars hosted by various law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies throughout the United States.

As an attorney and while still employed as a deputy sheriff, Tom designed the existing curriculum for the LASD Search Warrant School, a mandatory course provided for newly promoted detectives. Tom taught at the LASD’s Advanced Officer Training Bureau, where he taught the Search Warrant School, Basic Detective Concepts Course, and Intermediate Detective Concepts Course.

Tom is licensed to practice law in the state courts of California and the United States Court for the Central District of California and Washington D.C.

As a full-time deputy sheriff, Tom worked for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office as a part-time certified law clerk, assigned to Central Trial – 11. While assigned to CT 11, Tom gained a tremendous amount of jury trial experience by trying various felony cases (assault with a deadly weapon, sales of narcotics, residential burglary, human trafficking, etc.) to verdict.

As an attorney, Tom represents peace officers, federal agents, and prosecutors from administrative discipline matters to criminal cases in both state and federal courts.