ADVERTORIAL
RICHARD PIO RODA Meyers Nave
In October 2010, Richard Pio Roda was elevated to prin- cipal at Meyers Nave, a California public agency law firm. Rich joined Meyers Nave in 2004 and made a rapid ascent to a principal of the firm. In reaching this milestone in his career, he said, “In addition to the satisfaction I receive from helping public clients achieve their goals and from working in a collaborative environment with numerous talented attorneys and staff, I am proud to be a principal of this firm, because of its commitment to diversity and to helping women attorneys and attorneys of color succeed within the firm and in the profession.” Rich’s public law practice focuses on municipal
law, public contracts and construction, education law, election law, and corporate law. He currently serves as the Assistant City Attorney for the City of San Leandro, General Counsel for the Mendocino County Community Development Commission, and as special counsel to other public agencies. He was the assistant city attorney for the cities of Milpitas and Oakley from 2004 until 2007. Prior to joining Meyers Nave, he served the San Francisco Unified School District as a Deputy General Counsel. Although based in the firm’s San Francisco office, he fre- quently works from the firm’s five other offices, to provide exceptional service to clients all over California. Rich is recognized as a skilled trainer and presenter on issues of government ethics, conflicts of interest, the Brown Act and the Public Records Act, and public con- tracting, bidding and construction. As an active member in the Bay Area community, Rich has volunteered as a professional auctioneer for the past 13 years, conduct- ing numerous auctions to help raise money for charities, schools, foundations, and non-profit organizations. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, and the San Francisco-Manila Sister City Committee. Rich is also active in the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California, serving as its Presi- dent from 2006 to 2007.
LILY N. CHINN Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Lily N. Chinn is an experienced litigator in the San Fran- cisco office of Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. with a focus on environmental, natural resources, toxic tort and product iability issues. Since coming to the Firm, Ms. Chinn ob- tained a defense victory in San Francisco on behalf of a national chemical manufacturer in a six month toxic tort jury trial and a three week cost recovery bench trial in- volving groundwater contamination. She is currently the chair of the Firm’s NEPA, Wetlands, and ESA Section and co-chair of the Firm’s E-Discovery Section. Ms. Chinn came to Beveridge & Diamond after nearly
eight years as a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Environmental Defense Section in Washington D.C., where she litigated a variety of complex appellate and district court cases across the country under the federal pollution statutes. In this capacity, Ms. Chinn co-chaired two civil wetlands enforcement trials and one defensive CERCLA trial. She has also argued numerous motions before the district courts and conducted exten- sive discovery and pre-trial preparation. In addition, Ms. Chinn has successfully defended challenges to EPA Clean Air Act rulemakings in the federal courts of appeals, where she argued several cases before the Fifth and Elev- enth Circuits. While at the Department, Ms. Chinn also served as a
prosecutor in the Criminal Division’s Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section for seven months as well as co-chaired the Environment Division’s E-Discovery Working Group. For her work, she received multiple DOJ awards. Ms. Chinn holds a Bachelor of Arts with High Distinc-
tion in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley and a Juris Doctor from the University of Califor- nia, Los Angeles School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif. Ms. Chinn is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.
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