Merily Sanchez

Associate

Merily Sanchez is an Associate at Aleshire & Wynder, LLP in Orange County, California.

Merily represents public entities and their employees in state and federal court, with a focus on complex civil litigation, civil-rights defense, and law-enforcement liability matters. Her practice includes defending Section 1983 actions, including officer involved shootings, excessive force and  wrongful death cases, fabrication of evidence and malicious prosecution claims, and Monell/municipal liability matters.

Merily has experience representing public entities agencies at all stages of litigation, including case evaluation, pleadings, written discovery, depositions, motion practice, mediation, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.  She has prepared law enforcement officers for deposition, taken and defended depositions, drafted and argued dispositive motions, and coordinated litigation strategy in high exposure civil rights matters.

Prior to joining Aleshire & Wynder, LLP, Merily served on a Public Entity and Police Liability Defense team where she represented the County of Orange and its departments and officials, including the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Sheriff Don Barnes, Orange County Jails, OC Health Care Agency, and Orange County Social Services.  In that capacity, she defended law enforcement personnel in high profile civil rights litigations, including officer involved shooting matters, jail related claims, and constitutional claims arising out of arrest, detention, and use of force incidents.