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Mr.
Vera received his law degree from the
University of California, Los Angeles
in 1973 and received a Bachelor of Science
degree from Michigan State University
in 1970.
His law practice has focused
in the areas of non profit corporations,
education
and public law, with an emphasis on
economic development, business, labor,
land use and environmental issues.
He has been lead or co-counsel in several
significant class actions and appellate
cases. Insofar as his public law experience,
he has represented numerous public
agencies and school districts. He is
presently special counsel to the University
of La Verne, the City of El Centro,
the Rowland, Bassett and Chino Valley
Unified School District, and Hillcrest
Brethren Retirement Community. Mr.
Vera has, over the last 15 years, represented
over 20 different cities and school
districts on special matters.
Mr. Vera
has also been active in State Bar matters,
having served on the Client
Security Fund Commission for the California
State Bar and has been a member of
the State Bar Commission on Evaluating
Judicial Nominees and the Committee
on Legal Services. In the first part
of 1997 he served a five-month term
as interim Executive Director for the
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.
From 1973 to 1985 Mr. Vera was an attorney
with two prominent public interest
law firms based in San Francisco, MALDEF
and CRLA, working primarily in the
area of education and civil rights.
After spending 1985-1986 between the
University of California Berkeley’s
School of Education as a Visiting Scholar
and the Claremont Graduate School on
a postdoctoral fellowship, Mr. Vera
has been in private practice in Southern
California since 1986. In 1992-1993,
Mr. Vera was a Visiting Professor of
Law at Loyola Law School and from 1993
to 1999 was an adjunct Professor of
Law at Loyola where he taught, among other
courses, the Education and Law seminar.
He
currently serves on the Board of Directors
of the Pomona Valley Hospital
Medical Center, the Los Angeles County
Fair Association, the Pomona Valley
YMCA and the California Consortium
of Education Foundations. Among his
other awards, in 1988 Mr. Vera was
honored by the Angeles chapter of the
Sierra Club receiving a special services
award in recognition of his legal work
in environmental cases. He also served
as a consultant to the Ford Foundation
and the Association of American Colleges
on increasing minority student access
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