Mr. Kaloyanides graduated from UCLA in 1986 and received his JD in 1992 from Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. He was a published member of the Law Review Staff and a Moot Court finalist. Mr. Kaloyanides was admitted to the California Bar in 1992.
Beginning in 2011, Mr. Kaloyanides began his three-year term as the Representative for the Criminal Justice Act Indigent Defense Panel for the Central District of California. Appointed by Federal Public Defender Sean Kennedy and Chief Judge Audrey B. Collins, Mr. Kaloyanides heads the Central District’s more than 100 CJA Panel lawyers in representing indigent defendants for whom the Federal Public Defender’s Office has been conflicted from representing. The CJA Indigent Defense Panel is a select group of highly qualified federal criminal defense lawyers who handle some of the most complex federal criminal cases in the nation. Mr. Kaloyanides’ commitment to the Criminal Justice Act panel is a reflection of our philosophy to provide the best defense for anyone, regardless of their financial stature. In addition, with Mr. Kaloyanides’ membership as a “Capital List” attorney, the firm also represents defendants in high-profile, federal death-penalty cases.
David Kaloyanides is a Life Member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Association of Federal Defense Attorneys, the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Bars of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the Northern District of California, the Southern District of California, the Eastern District of California, and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
