Robert A. Lomeli
Senior Counsel | San Luis Obispo
rlomeli@lozanosmith.com
Tel: 805.788.9620
Fax: 805.930.1031
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Bio
Overview
Robert A. Lomeli is Senior Counsel in Lozano Smith's San Luis Obispo Office. Mr. Lomeli primarily serves municipal clients with a focus on public meetings and governance, contracts, investigations and labor negotiations, and works tirelessly to obtain advantageous outcomes for his clients.Experience
Mr. Lomeli's prior experience includes extensive work in labor negotiations, where he led collective bargaining efforts for various clients. His responsibilities encompassed drafting and revising contracts, working to reach tentative agreements, negotiating amendments to grievance and employee discipline procedures, and collaborating with analysts to determine costing for proposed bargaining requests. His background also includes family law and estate planning, where he analyzed case merits, minimized risk, and obtained successful rulings and judgments in both evidentiary and motion hearings. Additionally, he gained valuable experience in public entity negotiations and police investigations through his work with sheriff's offices.Currently, Mr. Lomeli serves as City Attorney for the City of Grover Beach, primarily serving municipal clients with a focus on public agency law. His practice encompasses public meetings and governance, Brown Act compliance, Public Records Act requests, contracts, investigations, labor negotiations, ordinance drafting, nuisance and code enforcement issues, elections law, water rights, and hazardous waste disposal regulation. He regularly advises clients on internal investigations, personnel matters, public works projects, general government contracts, and Propositions 218 and 26 implementation.