About Alana Sabina
Alana Sabina Yakovlev took a route that mixes courtroom practice with in-house compliance work. She has moved between private firms and corporate counsel roles, and those shifts have shaped how she approaches both criminal defense and labor law matters.
Her undergraduate years were split between the University of California campuses at Los Angeles and Berkeley, where she studied political science. She then earned a J.D. from New York Law School, completing coursework in criminal defense and training that led her into trial and appellate practice.
Yakovlev’s professional record begins in-house. In 2010 she joined Compliance Assistance Inc. as counsel handling labor law matters. That role exposed her to wage-and-hour compliance, employee classification issues, and employer responses to regulatory inquiries. The in-house setting also required advising nonlegal teams and creating policies intended to reduce risk.
She returned to private practice in supervisory roles shortly afterward. In 2011 she served as a supervising lawyer at Liberty Bell Law Group, and in 2013 she took a supervising position at The Blanch Law Office. Those years put her back into litigation and courtroom management, overseeing junior attorneys, delegating discovery tasks, and arguing motions in criminal and civil settings.
Currently she is the managing partner of Walk Free Law. In that capacity she manages case intake and supervises litigation strategies. She handles client meetings, prepares pleadings, and coordinates with opposing counsel. Her work at Walk Free Law ties together earlier labors in compliance and courtroom advocacy.
Yakovlev holds admission to practice in New Jersey, California, and New York. She maintains memberships in several professional organizations, including the Criminal Courts Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the New York County Lawyers Association, and California Lawyers for Criminal Justice, where she has been listed since 2015. Her ongoing association with Compliance Assistance Inc. is also noted in her professional affiliations.
Her practice reflects a mix of criminal defense and labor-law experience. She has handled internal corporate matters and courtroom disputes, and she has overseen teams in both settings. Conversations with opposing counsel and appearances in court both form parts of her regular work.
She currently concentrates her practice on criminal defense and labor law matters at Walk Free Law.
