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Roberta L. Rowe is a shareholder in the Fresno office. She focuses on student and labor and employment matters in her daily practice of law. Ms. Rowe has expertise in certificated and classified employee matters, termination and layoff hearings, collective bargaining, grievance arbitrations, and unfair labor practice charges.
With respect to Board issues, she has in-depth knowledge of the Brown Act, conflicts of interest and policy development. In addition, she has been involved with investigations on behalf of school districts and municipalities relating to harassment and discrimination complaints.
Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Rowe worked for eighteen years as a Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant with workers' compensation, social security and marital dissolution cases. She began her law career with Auchard and Stewart in Fresno litigating matters for school districts. In 1998 she joined Stroup & de Goede as an associate attorney specializing in school law before joining Lozano Smith in 2004.
Ms. Rowe received her law degree from San Joaquin College of Law in 1995. While attending law school, she won first place at the Hopper Moot Court Competition and was a quarter finalist at the Evans Constitutional Law Moot Court Competition at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She also served on the San Joaquin College of Law Agricultural Law Review. Ms. Rowe earned an M.A. from California State University, Fresno, in 1977 and a B.S. from Oregon State University, Corvallis in 1975. | 