NOSSAMAN - Key Persons
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- Associate / Washington, DC
Adeyemi Ojudun's practice focuses on P3 and alternative delivery projects and includes counseling clients on procurement structure, contract drafting and proposer instructions. Adeyemi has worked with the San Francisco Public Utility Commission to prepare a P3 agreement for the Southeast Treatment Plant Biogas Utilization Project, as well as working as a key member of the legal team advising on the Caltrain Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project. She also has advised on the P3 procurement of tolled express lanes for the Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority. Adeyemi's background in litigation and dispute resolution also enables her to provide advice regarding issues critical to infrastructure projects.
Adeyemi is a graduate of Fordham University School of Law, where she was a member of the Fordham Urban Law Journal. While in law school, she served as a judicial intern for the Honorable James Orenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Experience
Experience
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- Partner
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- Partner / Los Angeles
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- New York City Bar Association Diversity Fellow
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- Partner
- Office Administrative Partner
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- Co - Chair of the Pensions
- Partner / San Francisco
Ashley Dunning is co-chair of the Pensions, Benefits & Investments Group at Nossaman, a member of the firm's Litigation department and serves on the Firm's Executive Committee. She has provided fiduciary, governance and litigation counsel services to retirement systems and their boards since 1998.
Ashley currently serves as fiduciary counsel to the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS) and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS), as well as fiduciary, litigation, governance and/or special projects counsel to the majority of the twenty California retirement systems governed by the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) and to the city retirement systems in Fresno, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. She also is general counsel to the county retirement system in Marin. She has provided fiduciary governance training, consultation, and advice to the Fire and Police Pension Association of Colorado Board and Staff, Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association's Board and staff, the Howard County Maryland Retirement Plans' Committees and to the Board of the Government Employees' Retirement System of the Virgin Islands. She provided special project counsel to the Pension Reserves Investment Management Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 2018. She also has provided fiduciary expert witness testimony in proceedings on behalf of the University of California Board of Regents. Collectively, the retirement systems she serves hold more than $1 trillion in trust assets.
Ashley has represented public retirement systems in litigation in numerous cases resulting in published decisions. Ashley's most recent argument on behalf of retirement systems before the California Supreme Court resulted in a unanimous decision in Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Association, et al. v. Alameda County Employees' Retirement Association, et al. (State of California) (Alameda). Alameda is a landmark decision of the Court, which decided the narrow issues presented to it determining that statutory amendments it considered were constitutional, while preserving the strength of the "vested rights doctrine" based on the California Constitution's Contract Clause, known in public pension law as the "California Rule."
Ashley also is currently lead counsel for public retirement systems in three cases pending in California before the First, Second and Third District Court of Appeals. These and other cases Ashley has led have involved disputes over all aspects of the administration and governance of public pension systems, including disputes over the extent to which benefits are contractually "vested" under the Federal and California constitutions, alleged conflicts of interest, retirement system funding, disability retirement and public transparency rules.
Experience
Experience
Ashley advises on issues involving fiduciary obligations, governance and public retirement, conflict of interest, open meetings and public records laws. She appears regularly before boards of trustees and in court proceedings on these issues. She also regularly provides training on these topics to clients and at conferences throughout the country. In addition, Ashley has taught "Ethics for Public Officials" annually for 15 years at the Principles of Pension Management for Trustees conference and all at General Assemblies sponsored by the California Association of Public Retirement Systems (CalAPRS), as well as for over a decade the Fall and Spring Conferences of the State Association of County Retirement Systems (SACRS).
Published California Supreme Court decisions in Ashley's public pension cases include:
Alameda County Deputy Sheriff's Ass'n v. Alameda County Employees' Retirement Ass'n, 9 Cal. 5th 1032 (2020);
Flethez v. San Bernardino County Employees' Retirement Ass'n, 2 Cal. 5th 630 (2017); and
Lexin v. Superior Court, 47 Cal. 4th 1050 (2010).
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- Associate
- Associate / Los Angeles
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- Partner
- Office Administrative Partner
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- Partner
- Appointed to Executive Committee for Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association
- Partner / Sacramento
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- Partner / San Francisco
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- Partner
- Office Administrative Partner
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- Management & Compliance Consultant
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- Chief Information Officer
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- Risk Management & Compliance Director
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- Partner
- Partner / Los Angeles
- Tax Partner
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- Attorney Recruiting & Development Director
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- Partner
- Partner / Sacramento
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- Paralegal
- Paralegal / Los Angeles
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- Information Technology Director
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- Partner
- Office Administrative Partner
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- Senior Compliance Consultant
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- Associate
- Associate / Los Angeles
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- Practice Support Services Director
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- Billing & Collections Director
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- Office Administration Director
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- Partner
- Partner / Los Angeles
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- Partner
- Partner / San Francisco
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- Partner
- Office Administrative Partner
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- of Counsel
- of Counsel / Washington, DC
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- Business Analytics & Pricing Director
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- of Counsel
- of Counsel / San Francisco
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- Partner
- Office Administrative Partner
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- Partner
- Partner / Los Angeles
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- Partner
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