Adanté Pointer

Adanté Pointer is an award-winning, nationally recognized attorney that has represented families and people for over 15 years resulting in many of the highest verdicts and settlements in the nation. 

Pointer recently won a $21 Million verdict in a federal jury trial against the Fremont Police Department. In 2023, he became responsible for California’s Number 1 Settlement in a Jail Abuse case on behalf of Maurice Monk who was denied medical care leading to his death causing the County of Alameda to settle for $7 million – which also resulted in permanent training and policy changes within the Santa Rita jail.

In 2024, Pointer was named the Daily Journal’s Top 100 Attorney. In 2023, Pointer and his firm received CLAY California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year. He has been selected as the “Nations Best Advocate” by the National Bar Association and is regularly awarded the title of “Super Lawyer” by the national Super Lawyers magazine.  He was featured on the cover of Super Lawyers June 2024 magazine in an article titled “A Fight Within Him” – which recounts Pointer long history of fighting for families in police abuse and personal injury cases. 

From representing the Oscar Grant’s family in their case against BART police officer Mehserle who shot and killed Mr. Grant as he lay face down on a BART station platform –– which was later into the block buster movie “Fruitvale” –– to representing the Foster & McCoy families in achieving a cumulative $10.7 million in record settlements against the City of Vallejo that exposed a police gang within the police department, Pointer has dedicated his life to fighting for the people, using the law as a shield and a sword for the most vulnerable of our communities —and winning

Pointer brings a wealth of his own personal experience of not only representing others who were abused by the police but himself as well. In 2019, Pointer filed a lawsuit against Oakland Police Department for being pulled over and made to crawl on the ground under threats of being shot because his car supposedly fit the description of another person. He turned that death defying experience into a short film called “Dead Right” which Pointer uses to educate the public.

Mr. Pointer has even had the benefit of representing a diverse range of clients from celebrities like Superbowl Defensive End Michael Bennett to over 10,000 victims in a class action lawsuit against Chevron in the Richmond Chevron Refinery Fire in 2012. 

Pointer heavily invests in his community, regularly speaks at law schools, universities, protests, rallies, and in the media about police violence. He frequently hosts Know Your Rights workshops to teach the community about their civil rights and delivers motivational speeches to encourage our youth to reach for the stars.

Pointer’s Firm started a scholarship program “Lawyers For The People Scholar” that provides a $10,000 scholarship to a student that best represents dedication to helping under privileged and the community.  

Education

UC Berkeley – Bachelors

UC Law San Francisco – Juris Doctorate

Instagram: @adantepointeresq and @lawyersftp