Serena M. Sanders
Associate

ssanders@akk-law.com

T (916) 564-6100 ext. 235
F (916) 564-6263

Practice Areas:
Public Entity Defense; Employment Litigation; Constitutional Cases; Civil Rights Litigation; General Torts.

Significant Cases:

• Richards v. Prieto (E.D. Cal 2011) Case No. 2:09-CV-01235-MCE-DAD
• Patche v. Dept. of General Services (Sacramento Superior Court) Case No. 06AS03408

Since joining Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff in early 2010, Ms. Sanders has represented public entities in disputes involving nuisance regulations, excessive force allegations, constitutional challenges to gun control regulations, and a number of employment cases where age, religious, and/or disability discrimination was alleged. Even as a young associate, Ms. Sanders has argued dispositive motions before the Northern and Eastern District of California courts and her successful defense of a local gun permitting policy in federal court received national attention.

Ms. Sanders is a California-native and was raised locally in Elk Grove, CA. She received her bachelor of arts with high honors from the University of California Santa Barbara and graduated law school, cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. In law school, she maintained a wide-variety of interests. She served as President of the Filipino American Law Society, Senior Articles Editor of the Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, and competed at the Wagner Labor Law Competition as a member of the moot court team. She is a member of the Sacramento Bar Association and the Filipino American Bar Association of Northern California. Ms. Sanders spends her days off in yoga class, snowboarding, or at home trying to keep her cats out of her crochet yarn.

Admitted to Practice

• All California State courts
• United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Eastern District
• United States District Court for the Northern District

Experience

• 2010 – Present
  Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff –Associate
  Areas of emphasis: Public Entity Defense; Employment Litigation; Constitutional Cases; Civil Rights Litigation; General Torts.
• 2009 - 2010
  Health Law Consortium – Legal Research Fellow
• Summer 2008
  Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner, LLP – Summer Associate
• Summer 2007
  United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit – Extern for the Honorable John Noonan

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., cum laude (2009)
• Hastings Public Interest Honoree
• Best Moot Court Oral Argument Award Recipient
• Moot Court Team Competitor & Brief Editor
• Race and Poverty Law Journal Outreach Editor & Senior Articles Editor
• Pilipino American Law Society, President, Historian and Social Chair
• Independent Scholar for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights
• Legal Research and Writing and Moot Court Teacher's Assistant
• University of California, Santa Barbara, B.A. with high honors (2004)

Professional Memberships

• Sacramento County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section
• Filipino Bar Association of Northern California