Areas of Practice

  • Municipal Law
  • Transactional Law
  • Contracts
  • Land Use and Zoning

Education

  • J.D., University of San Francisco, School of Law, Magna Cum Laude, 2015
  • B.A., University of California, Irvine, Spanish, 2010

Admissions

  • State Bar of California

Brittany Roberto joined Jones Mayer in December 2015. Ms. Roberto primarily works as a Transactional Attorney and focuses her practice on municipal law. Ms. Roberto has served as the City Attorney for the City of Blythe since November 2020. She also serves as the Assistant City Attorney for the City of West Covina, as General Counsel to the Palo Verde Valley Transit Agency, as Legal Counsel for the La Habra Planning Commission, and as a Deputy City Attorney for several other clients.

Ms. Roberto has experience in handling and advising clients in most areas of municipal law, including, but not limited to, the Brown Act, Political Reform Act, Fair Political Practices Commission regulations, conflict of interest law, election law, labor and employment law, land use and planning law, and public contracting and competitive bidding requirements. She also has extensive experience preparing, reviewing, and revising ordinances and municipal code amendments, resolutions, and legal memoranda and in negotiating, drafting, and revising a wide variety of agreements, including professional service agreements, public works agreements, and encroachment agreements, and in preparing templates for standard agreements.

Ms. Roberto obtained her juris doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law (USF), where she graduated in the top 5 percent of her class. Prior to pursuing her legal education, Ms. Roberto obtained her undergraduate degree in Spanish from the University of California, Irvine.

Brittany Roberto joined Jones & Mayer in December 2015 after previously working at the firm as a law clerk. Ms. Roberto primarily works as a transactional attorney and focuses her practice on municipal law. Her duties include providing legal guidance to the firm’s city and public entity clients, researching, analyzing, and advising our clients on recent legislation and court decisions impacting public entities, drafting and amending ordinances, and drafting and reviewing agreements. She also performs city prosecutorial duties and provides support to the Litigation Department.

Ms. Roberto obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law (USF), where she graduated in the top 5% of her class in 2015. While at USF, Ms. Roberto spent two years on the USF Law Review, serving as a Comments Editor during her final year. She was also a member of the USF Moot Court Program, where she coached first year law students in developing effective oral argument techniques and etiquette, and prepared them for their first oral advocacy exercise. During law school, Ms. Roberto also worked for the Honorable Suzanne R. Bolanos at the Juvenile Justice Center in San Francisco, where she assisted with juvenile delinquency matters. Prior to pursuing her legal education, Ms. Roberto obtained her undergraduate degree in Spanish from the University of California, Irvine in 2010, which included studying abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Ms. Roberto speaks Spanish.