Raquel Lacayo-Valle
Raquel Lacayo-Valle is an associate who started working at the firm in the spring of 2006. Prior to joining CPW, Ms. Lacayo-Valle spent the greater part of five years working as a Public Defender in Alameda County. She worked for one year on adult criminal matters and the following years representing children and parents in juvenile dependency hearings. Ms. Lacayo-Valle's juvenile dependency practice included bench trials, mediation, advice, and counseling.
While in law school, Ms. Lacayo-Valle was co-managing editor of the Hasting's Women's Law Journal. She also earned the privilege of studying abroad in the international law program at Leiden University, The Netherlands. During her first summer and second year in law school, Ms. Lacayo-Valle clerked at the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency.
Prior to law school, Ms. Lacayo-Valle worked in the San Francisco Mayor's Office as an associate policy planner on issues affecting children, youth, and families.
Ms. Lacayo-Valle is interested in using her litigation and mediation skills to establish a practice in public entity, real estate and construction, labor and employment, alternative dispute resolution, and civil rights law.
Ms. Lacayo-Valle graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts in English, and in 2001 with a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.
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