For Immediate Release:
June 30, 2009

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Meyers Nave Principal Benjamin Reyes Named Assistant City Attorney for City of Union City

OAKLAND, CA – The City of Union City has named Meyers Nave principal Benjamin Reyes as Assistant City Attorney. He joins Meyers Nave principal Mike Riback who has served as the City Attorney for Union City for the past seven years.

“Union City is eagerly anticipating the legal services of Ben Reyes,” said Mark Green, the Mayor of Union City. He added, “his temperament, verbal skills and analytic ability will be appreciated by the city council and staff. We expect a long partnership.” Union City is centrally situated between San Francisco and San Jose and has an ethnically diverse population of approximately 74,000 residents.

Benjamin Reyes is currently the City Attorney for the City of Pinole, and also serves as Assistant General Counsel for the Northern California Power Agency and the Stege Sanitary District. Reyes has served as in-house counsel for the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) and Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Jose. He has also represented the cities of Berkeley, Fremont, Los Altos Hills and the County of Marin.

Reyes is very active in his community, serving as the president of the Alameda Free Library Foundation and is a judge in the McCullum Youth Court Project. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California and former board member of the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce. He teaches trial advocacy skills at Stanford Law School and the University of San Francisco, School of Law.

Reyes received his law degree from the University of San Francisco, School of Law, and completed his undergraduate work at the University of California at Berkeley.

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