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Steve Andelson is a founding partner of AALRR.  He has exclusively represented school and community college districts in employment, personnel, labor relations, and general school law for over 40 years. 

Mr. Andelson’s work ...

E.B. Bell represents school districts and county offices of education in education law, with a concentration in special education and student issues. He provides interpretation and assessment of issues arising under the ...

Dr. Matthew Besmer advises and represents educational institutions in matters involving board governance, the Brown Act, the Public Records Act, the Political Reform Act and other ethics laws, First Amendment issues, labor and ...

William Betley represents employers in all areas of employment law, including unlawful harassment, discrimination, employee classification, wage and hour, class action and PAGA matters. He provides his clients full service ...

Mark Bresee represents California public school and community college districts and county offices of education. His areas of practice include all aspects of labor and employment law, student issues including attendance and ...

Bryce Chastain brings the acumen and expertise he has developed over more than two decades in the practice of law for our clients. His primary areas of practice are in construction, real estate, and business transactions for ...

J. Kayleigh Chevrier represents school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education in labor and employment law and in general education matters. Ms. Chevrier provides representation, advice, and ...

Andreas Chialtas is the immediate past chair of AALRR's Facilities, Construction & Property Practice Group, and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee.  Mr. Chialtas practices primarily in the areas of real property, land ...

Georgelle Cuevas is experienced in counseling and representing public and private sector employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including discrimination/harassment, wrongful termination, disability ...

Scott Danforth represents California school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and private businesses. His focus on education law includes employment, special education, premises ...

Alexandria Davidson represents California public school districts as general counsel.  She has experience with employment-related matters, including certificated and classified employee discipline, reductions of force ...

Mary Beth de Goede has exclusively represented school and community college districts in employment law, personnel and labor relations, and general public school law for over 30 years. She has served as the principal legal advisor ...

Tony De Marco specializes in the representation of California employers in all aspects of personnel and labor management.  Mr. De Marco is a recognized expert in the areas of discipline, contract enforcement, grievances, and ...

Peter Denno handles a wide array of labor and employment law and general counsel matters for public school districts. His areas of concentration in labor and employment matters include labor negotiations, grievance processing ...

Bill Diedrich represents school districts, community college districts, and other public agencies in all aspects of labor and employment law.

Having served for more than a decade as Chief Negotiator for school districts and ...

A. Christopher Duran is a skilled litigator with over 16 years of experience representing both public and private sector clients in education law, labor and employment, and a variety of civil litigation matters. He practices ...

Amy Estrada is a partner in AALRR’s San Diego office and serves school district, county office of education, and community college clients in San Diego, Orange, and Imperial counties.

Ms. Estrada provides assistance to education ...

Jennifer Fain is the partner in charge of the Marin office.  She represents public schools, county offices of education, and special education local plan areas on compliance with federal and state laws involving students with ...

Eve Peek Fichtner represents school districts, county offices of education, community colleges, and private employers for personnel matters, student issues, and all forms of discrimination and harassment claims. Ms. Fichtner ...

Mr. Fleck is the former Chair of AALRR's Private Labor and Employment Practice Group, covering nine offices throughout California.

As a trusted advisor, Paul Fleck works closely with his business clients navigating the ...

Mellissa Gallegos represents and advises California school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education in all education and employment law matters, including employee evaluation, discipline and ...

Stephanie Crespin represents California school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education on issues related to labor and employment, workplace accommodations, collective bargaining, charter ...

Karen Gilyard represents California school districts, charter schools, special education local plan areas (“SELPAs”), and county offices of education/county superintendents of schools in education law and ...

Todd Goluba is the immediate past chair of AALRR's Northern California Education Law Practice Group and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. He has 29 years of experience in education law and serves as outside General ...

Jacqueline Hang represents California public school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education in all areas of general education law. Ms. Hang has significant experience conducting impartial ...

Davina Harden acts as counsel to California public school districts, charter schools, and private schools in all aspects of education law and employment law and works with clients to find practical, innovative, and cost-effective ...

Suparna Jain represents school districts, community college districts, water districts, other public entities, as well as some private clients. Currently she serves as Assistant General Counsel to United Water Conservation ...

Jonathan Judge heads the Private Labor and Employment Group’s Advice and Counsel Team of attorneys.  He represents clients, large and small, in employment advice and counsel matters including wage and hour, leaves of absence, and ...

Warren Kinsler advises California school and community college districts and county offices of education on a wide range of outside general counsel issues. He is a recognized expert on the Brown Act, with additional expertise in the ...

Nate Kowalski is the immediate past chair of the firm’s Public Entity Labor and Employment Practice Group. He is an accomplished litigator who represents employers in both the private and public sectors. Mr. Kowalski has ...

Tien Le represents California school districts in education law matters. His experience in the field ranges from investigating complaints alleging violations of unlawful discrimination, harassment and intimidation, and ...

Alex Lozada is a seasoned attorney who provides legal counsel to school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education. With an extensive background in litigation, Mr. Lozada brings a wealth of experience ...

Kimberly Ludwin counsels and represents California school districts, community college districts and county offices of education in all general education law matters.

Ms. Ludwin assists education administrators with a variety ...

Bryan Martin has used his litigation and education law background to prosecute personnel and disciplinary actions at the administrative and judicial levels. He has developed successful responses to complaints against districts ...

Paul McGlocklin represents school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education, focusing on classified and certificated employment matters and other labor and employment issues. He also handles ...

Stephen McLoughlin advises public and private agencies on a wide variety of transactional and litigation issues. He represents California community college districts, universities and school districts in education-related ...

Anna Miller represents public school districts and California community college districts in all areas of general education law; labor relations; employment matters such as discrimination, dismissal and harassment; student ...

Jacquelyn Takeda Morenz represents California school districts and county offices of education in a variety of labor and employment and general education matters. Her areas of expertise include leaves of absence, reasonable ...

Kristin Myers represents California school districts and county offices of education, specializing in special education and student discipline matters. Her practice focuses on Section 504 and IEP team meetings, resolution ...

Katrina J. Nepacena represents school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education in labor and employment law and general education matters. As a former management-side employment litigator for a ...

Adam Newman is the chair of the firm’s state-wide Student Services and Disability Law Practice Group. Mr. Newman has many years of experience advising and representing public school districts, SELPAs and county offices of ...

Anthony Niccoli has extensive experience representing contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, and owners for a full range of construction issues, including licensing, contract drafting and negotiations, bid ...

Aaron O'Donnell represents California community college districts, universities, and school districts in education and employment-related matters. He provides experienced advice and counsel to clients in all aspects ...

Sharon Ormond chairs AALRR’s Associate Mentoring and Training Committee and is a member of the firm’s Higher Education, Title IX, Civil Rights, and Wage and Hour teams. She represents numerous community college districts and ...

Gabrielle Ortiz represents California public school districts, charter schools, county offices of education, and special education local plan areas with a concentration in special education and student issues. Her practice ...

Beverly Ozowara represents educational agencies throughout Southern California in all employment matters, including employee evaluations, discipline, reasonable accommodations, interactive process meetings ...

Chesley (“Chet”) Quaide is the managing partner of Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo's Pleasanton office.  He focuses his practice on education law, labor relations, and employment/labor law.

Mr. Quaide served as General ...

Rebeca Quintana represents school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education in all labor and employment law matters, including employee evaluation, discipline and dismissal, reasonable ...

Elizabeth Rho-Ng represents California public school districts, county offices of education, independent/private schools, community college districts, and special education local plan areas (SELPA) in various aspects of ...

Todd Robbins represents public school districts in the areas of education law, certificated and classified employee discipline, certificated layoffs, harassment and discrimination complaints, and contract ...

Irma Rodríguez Moisa is an experienced litigator, labor negotiator, and trial attorney representing public and private entities in labor and employment matters. She is recognized as one of the top Labor and Employment lawyers ...

Brooke Romero represents California school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education, as well as private schools, in a variety of general education and labor and employment matters. Her areas of ...

Alyssa Ruiz de Esparza represents California school districts, county offices of education, and community colleges in education law. Ms. Ruiz de Esparza provides assistance to education administrators on a variety of personnel ...

Lauren Ruvalcaba represents California school and community college districts in general education law and personnel matters. Her focus on education law includes general liability and certificated and classified discipline ...

Scott Sachs represents private and governmental entities in complex litigation in the areas of data privacy and security issues, construction and environmental law.

Mr. Sachs helps clients procure equipment, set up safety ...

Gabriel Sandoval is a partner at Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo where he represents universities, community colleges, school districts, charter school management organizations, municipalities, non-profit ...

Peter Schaffert is a distinguished legal professional with a wealth of experience representing public sector employers in all facets of labor and employment law. Mr. Schaffert has proven expertise in navigating complex legal ...

Constance Schwindt represents private entities in a wide range of real estate matters including real property acquisitions and sales, leases, subleases, ground leases, solar leases, licenses and easements as well as ...

Justin Shinnefield is a Partner with Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo.  For almost 20 years, he has represented California public school districts, county offices of education, private schools, community college districts ...

Amber Solano is Chair of AALRR's Private Labor and Employment Practice Group, covering nine offices throughout California.

Ms. Solano is an accomplished litigator who represents employers in both the private and public sector in ...

David Soldani has a diverse practice that focuses largely on advising public agencies including school districts, community colleges, cities, counties and special districts in the areas of labor and employment law, including ...

Dustin Stroeve represents school districts, community college districts, and county offices of education in labor and employment law and in general education matters. Mr. Stroeve provides representation, advice, and counsel on ...

Constance Taylor focuses on special education, Section 504, and student issues. Ms. Taylor represents school districts at IEP team meetings, resolution sessions, mediations, due process hearings, Section 504 meetings and ...

Mark Thompson primarily represents public school districts and Boards of Education in the areas of general education law, governance matters including the Brown Act and Public Records Act, certificated and classified employee ...

Emaleigh Valdez represents California school districts and county offices of education in a variety of labor and employment and general education matters. Her areas of expertise include leaves of absence, reasonable ...

Jonathan Vick is a member of the Facilities, Construction, and Property Practice Group and has more than 30 years of experience in state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He started his career working for the United ...

Jabari Willis is Partner at Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo in Cerritos, CA.  He provides human resources and employment-related counseling and training to employers on a wide variety of issues, including hiring, terminations ...

Sara Young represents school districts and other educational agencies as general counsel. Dr. Young proactively supporting agencies in ensuring practices and procedures comply with legal requirements through trainings, and ...

Elizabeth Zamora-Mejia represents public school districts, county offices of education, community colleges and universities in all aspects of labor and employment law and general education litigation. Ms ...