Lona Laymon joined the law firm of Jones Mayer in 2025. She has over twenty-five years’ experience in the representation of local public agencies having served in the roles of City Attorney and Assistant City Attorney for various municipalities. Lona’s practice emphasizes land use and environmental entitlements, economic development, solid waste contracts and services, ballot measures and elections, mixed-use and commercial projects, wireless telecommunications, and local agency revenues. Her transactional experience includes assisting public agencies with general plans, zoning codes, public parks, subdivisions, telecommunications projects, jurisdictional tax sharing agreements, mining (SMARA), and complex real property acquisitions and conveyances. She regularly assists her municipal clients with the Political Reform Act (conflicts of interest), Brown Act (public meeting laws), Public Records Act, elections laws, solid waste management, revenue and tax measures, and Propositions 218 and 26.
Lona has substantial litigation experience. Her litigation, administrative hearing and appellate practices span the areas of CEQA, eminent domain, land use and zoning law, First Amendment jurisprudence, elections laws, commercial development disputes, breach of contract, quiet title, and redevelopment dissolution issues.
Lona’s experience spans years of both general and special counsel work for public entities across California ranging from Northern California, Central Valleys, high desert areas, and Southern California metropolitan regions.