Roy C Santos

I am an Associate in the Fresno office of Aleshire & Wynder LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation, Public Safety, Code Enforcement and Labor and Employment Practice Groups. I provide representation for public entities and their employees. My legal expertise is focused on all aspects of representing public agencies, including matters involving land use, code enforcement, writ of mandate actions, habeas petitions, eminent domain, unlawful detainer, PBOR, FBOR, Pitchess, employment law, civil rights and the government tort claims act.

My career and educational opportunities have provided me with a diversity of valuable legal experience. I began my legal career in 2001 as a litigation paralegal for one of the premier intellectual property and antitrust law firms on the west coast. I continued to work as a paralegal while attending law school at the University of San Francisco. After taking the bar in 2008, I was hired by that firm as a contract attorney to work on a multi-million dollar carbon fiber antitrust law suit.

I have extensive experience managing all aspects of a case, from its inception through trial. As part of my trial practice, I have defended and conducted depositions, prepared and argued pre-trial and post-trial motions and conducted negotiations, mediations and arbitrations. I have also conducted bench and jury trials in both state and federal courts. In addition to my trial practice, I have experience litigating numerous appeals, including successfully advocating on behalf of my clients before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District.

Prior to joining Aleshire & Wynder, I served as the City Attorney for Firebaugh, and as a Deputy City Attorney for the cities of Coalinga, Clovis, Fowler, Reedley, Sanger, Parlier, and Lemoore.  I also served as Deputy County Counsel for the County of Madera where I was the lead attorney responsible for litigation, code enforcement, public records act requests, habeas petitions and all legal matters relating to the Madera County Sheriff’s Office, Department of Corrections, Department of Probation and Animal Services. As a City Attorney and Deputy City Attorney, I was the lead attorney responsible for code enforcement, subpoenas, Public Records Act requests and writ petitions. Additionally, I was responsible for the day to day advisory and transactional legal services of each city.