Meet the Team

Joseph Tully

Founding Partner, Criminal Law Specialist

Our founding attorney, Joseph Tully, is sought out for his expert legal advice throughout California. With over 20 years’ experience as a criminal lawyer, in 1000+ felony and other cases, Tully served as felony trial counsel as a public defender before launching Tully & Weiss in May 2001. Joseph Tully is a leading California criminal lawyer, a California State Bar certified specialist in criminal law, legal author, and legal analyst for national and international media. As a criminal defense attorney, he helps people defend their liberty and reputation in a broken criminal justice system. Joseph Tully and his firm have a remarkable record of earning Not Guilty verdicts based on hard work and dedication. They fight for the best possible outcome for each client. [More]

Jack Weiss (RETIRED)

Founding Partner

Tully & Weiss was formed in 2001 when Jack Weiss and Joseph Tully went into private practice in the Bay Area after working together in the Fresno County Public Defender office. Jack was Joseph’s mentor in Fresno, and their shared love of Justice inspired them to create the firm together.

Jack was born in the Bronx, and grew up in New York. He came West to attend the University of California at Berkeley, and worked as an apprentice union cabinetmaker while earning his way through school. [More]

Ashley Bargenquast

Criminal Defense and Cannabis Compliance Attorney

Ashley Bargenquast has been at Tully & Weiss Attorneys at Law since 2015 and is proud to be a member of such an amazing team. She practices both criminal defense and legal cannabis compliance. Her dual role has allowed her to work hands-on with the new industry regulations and take that knowledge into the courtroom where she has used it to defend cannabis patients and entrepreneurs alike. Her undergrad was at UC Davis, and her JD is from King Hall School of Law at UC Davis. Recognized as a leader in her field, Ashley is currently the President of the Contra Costa County Bar Association’s Criminal Section. [More]

Alan Kagawa

Attorney

Graduating with a degree in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, Alan Kagawa spent a year working as an emergency medical technician. He then attended Whittier Law School and graduated magna cum laude in 2017. During law school, he was a senior staff editor on the Whittier Law Review, an articles editor on the Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy, a member of the Moot Court Honors Board, and the secretary of the Trial Advocacy Honors Board. He joined Tully & Weiss in 2017 where he works on Criminal Law, Restraining Orders, and Criminal Record Expungement and Rehabilitation. [More]

Joseph Daugherty

Attorney

After passing the California Bar exam, Joseph Daugherty fulfilled his lifelong dream of being a defense lawyer. He previously interned at Tully & Weiss Attorneys at Law in the summer of 2018 while attending Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. He grew up and went to high school at Jesuit High School in Carmichael, a suburb of Sacramento and earned his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University, with a major in Philosophy and an emphasis in Law and Ethics. [More]

Nathan Dondi

Attorney

Nathan Dondi is a dedicated and zealous attorney at Tully & Weiss Attorneys at Law, having been officially sworn into the California Bar on May 9, 2025. Prior to that, he served as a Provisionally Licensed Lawyer from November 2020 to May 2025, under the direct mentorship of Mr. Tully, tackling complex legal matters across a broad spectrum of practice areas including civil, criminal, family, probate, and virtually any field where injustice demands remedy. [More]

Zuly Perez

Associate (Pending Admission)

Zuly Perez, was born in Los Angeles, California. She moved to Salt Lake City, Utah as a child. In 2006, she graduated from Hunter High School in West Valley City, Utah. She eventually made her way back to California in 2010. She started her professional career in the corporate world with AT&T and PepsiCo, where she worked for several years. She eventually grew tired of corporate politics and decided to pursue a legal education. She attended John F. Kennedy University for her B.A. in Legal Studies and Paralegal Certification. In 2018, Zuly joined the Tully & Weiss team as an intern then progressed on to become a certified law clerk [More]