Our Firm

Aleshire & Wynder, LLP is a “full service” public law firm. We provide our public agency clients with a wide spectrum of legal specialties, including in land use and zoning, personnel and labor, environmental redevelopment, affordable housing, conflicts of interest, elections, condemnation, police, civil rights, code enforcement, and public finance.

Our senior members have represented cities in Southern California continuously for over 25 years. We have enjoyed long-term relationships with our city clients, some dating back to the 1970’s. The best testimony to our qualifications is that our attorneys have represented the 10 cities in which we serve as City Attorney for a cumulative period of over 100 years, an average of over 10 years per city. Such stability is unique in our field of law.

Our client base goes beyond representation of cities. We represent public agencies of every possible nature. Our public agency client base consists of over 40 local governmental entities, including serving in various communities as special and general counsel to redevelopment agencies, housing authorities, water districts, community service districts, financing authorities, special districts, joint powers authorities and many other entities. Of course, the skills learned through that representation can also benefit private clients.

In order to provide the full range of services needed by municipalities, we have organized our practice into the following areas: Redevelopment and Housing; Litigation and Appellate Practice (before both State and Federal trial and appeals courts); Labor and Employment; Land Use and Zoning; Environment and Toxics; Franchises, Utilities and Energy; Civil Rights and First Amendment; Conflicts of Interest and Elections; Contracts and Public Construction; Law Enforcement and Nuisance Abatement; Public Finance; Torts and Governmental Immunity; Municipal Rent Control; and Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation.

As a full service public law firm we handle all aspects of most legal issues confronting municipalities. Thus, we handle police and civil rights cases for cities with police departments, federal interface issues for airports, personnel issues and labor negotiations, general plan revision programs, subdivision legal issues, conflict of interest questions including interfacing with the FPPC ethics training, counseling and compliance (including AB 1234), public record requests, adoption of city charters, franchising programs and utility undergrounding, condemnation cases for site assembly for redevelopment and housing projects, negotiation of purchase, redevelopment and development agreements with developers, impact fee ordinances, assessment districts and other public financing as well as municipal finance and Proposition 218 issues, cable television franchise ordinances, endangered species questions, CEQA litigation, environmental cleanup and mining reclamation plans, trash contract renewals and AB 939 issues, construction contract disputes and litigation, and community choice energy aggregation.