Nossaman Adds Jessica Lienau as General Counsel, Partner
Los Angeles, CA and Phoenix, AZ — We are pleased to announce Jessica Lienau has joined us as firmwide general counsel and partner. Before joining Nossaman, Jessica served as firmwide assistant general counsel; chair of the Attorney Ethics, Regulation and Licensing Practice; and co-chair of the Public Agency & Municipal Law Practice at Lewis Brisbois.
As general counsel, Jessica will play a pivotal role in providing strategic legal advice and guidance to the Firm, including overseeing all Firm legal matters, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations and assessing and mitigating legal risks.
“I am thrilled to join Nossaman and excited to work closely with its talented roster of attorneys and staff,” Jessica said. “I’m looking forward to leveraging my experience to optimize the legal and compliance operations at the Firm.”
Jessica’s experience in attorney regulation and ethics includes advising attorneys and law firms on matters relating to bar charges in Arizona and State Bar complaints in California, as well as fee disputes, disciplinary matters, disqualification issues, bar admissions and other licensing, ethics and professional responsibility issues. She has regularly represented clients from the inquiry stage through trial before the State Bar Court of California and been retained as an expert witness in attorney ethics matters.
Jessica also maintains a practice where she frequently advises clients on solid waste, wastewater, recycling and recycled water contracts, ordinances, laws and regulations. She serves as the outside general counsel to the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, a group of public agencies that together comprises one of the largest sanitation agencies in the United States. Additionally, she has experience representing and counseling clients in a variety of administrative proceedings, local agency formation issues, government tort claims/notices of claims and public records requests and litigation.
“We are excited to welcome Jessica to the Firm,” said David Graeler, Nossaman’s managing partner. “She is an outstanding strategist with extensive, sophisticated experience and will be an asset to the Firm and its clients as we continue to grow.”
Earlier in her career, Jessica worked at the State Bar of California, Office of Chief Trial Counsel, as both deputy and acting senior trial counsel, representing the State Bar of California and the Committee of Bar Examiners. She currently serves as an arbitrator for the State Bar of Arizona Fee Arbitration Program, 1st vice president of the Association of Discipline Defense Counsel in California and as a volunteer attorney for the State Bar Defense Consultations for the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel. She previously served as a member of the State Bar of Arizona Ethics Advisory Group and as a member of the Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee for the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She holds a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.
