About Julia A.
Julia A. Clayton built her legal foundations in California. She began college locally, earning an A.A. from American River College in 1999. She moved on to the University of California, Davis, where she completed a B.A. in sociology in 2001. She finished law school at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, receiving her J.D. in 2004.
After law school, Clayton entered public service. She joined the California Department of Justice and by 2005 was serving as a Deputy Lawyer General. That role placed her inside state government practice. It exposed her to regulatory work, litigation on behalf of government entities, and the procedural demands of public-sector matters.
Clayton is admitted to practice in California and has appeared in federal courts in the state, including the Central and Northern Districts of California. She is also admitted to the Ninth Circuit. Her bar admissions and federal qualifications underpin a practice that spans administrative and courtroom settings.
Her professional affiliations reflect a mix of government, health care and privacy interests. She maintains memberships in the American Bar Association’s State & Local Government Law Section and GPSolo Section. She also belongs to the Health Care Compliance Association and the Federal Bar Association. Groups focused on privacy and defense work — Women in Security & Privacy and Women in White Collar Criminal Defense — are among her associations.
Those ties inform the subjects she handles in private practice. Clients can expect representation in matters involving government law, health care compliance, privacy and security issues, and white-collar defense. She combines her background in public-sector litigation with experience addressing regulatory compliance questions and federal court practice.
Clayton operates from her own firm, Law Office of Julia A. Clayton, P.C. She works as a principal at the office and takes on matters that require knowledge of both state agencies and federal procedure. Her practice balances advisory work on compliance and governance with contested matters that may proceed in state or federal court.
Her professional path moves from community college to a state law office and now to private practice. That trajectory informs how she approaches client problems: practical, procedural and rooted in an understanding of government operations. She currently practices at Law Office of Julia A. Clayton, P.C., representing clients in government, compliance, privacy and white-collar matters.
