Sonia Salinas is an associate with Foley & Lardner LLP, where she has litigated cases in both state and federal courts and represented clients in a wide variety of fraud, misappropriation, and breach-of-contract disputes. Ms. Salinas has also represented clients, both plaintiffs and defendants, in shareholder derivative suits and financial services litigation. She is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Labor & Employment Practices.
Ms. Salinas is actively committed to pro bono representation which includes work for the Alliance for Children’s Rights and the California Innocence Project.
Prior to joining Foley, Ms. Salinas was a law clerk for Magistrate Judge Suzanne H. Segal of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California. Before beginning her legal career, Ms. Salinas worked as a children’s social worker for the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
Ms. Salinas earned her law degree from Loyola Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2006), where she was elected to Order of the Coif, and was a member and articles editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. While at Loyola, Ms. Salinas received a First Honors Award in Evidence, a Foundation of the State Bar of California Scholarship, and a Loyola Law School Academic Scholarship. Ms. Salinas was member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society, and a Sayre MacNeil Scholar. She is a graduate of the University of California at Riverside (B.S., with honors, 1998).
Ms. Salinas authored the article "Electronic Discovery and Cost Shifting: Who Foots the Bill," 38 Loy. L.A.L. Rev. 1639 (2005).
She is admitted to practice in California and before the Central District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms. Salinas is fluent in Spanish.