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Top Women Lawyers

May 9, 2012

Cristina C. Arguedas

Arguedas, Cassman & Headley LLP Berkeley Practice type: litigation


Many lawyers confine their knowledge to a specific practice area, but Arguedas likes to mix it up.


"It's one of the reasons why I became a criminal lawyer: you have to become an expert in a lot of things," she said.


In recent years, she defended former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds, who was accused of lying to a grand jury in 2003 about whether he knowingly used anabolic steroids while batting for the team.


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