Attorney Jena Acos has been appointed to the board of directors of the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County. Acos is an associate with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, where she practices water law and public agency law. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California, Berkeley.
Before joining Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Acos worked as a law clerk for Earthjustice in Oakland. She also spent a year as a clinical student focusing on coastal climate change and land use issues at the state and local level and was a law clerk for Coronel & Perez Abogados in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Fluent in both Spanish and Portuguese, Acos worked as a paralegal and translator for an international arbitration group at Arnold & Porter, LLP, before attending law school.
The Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County is a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal assistance to Santa Barbara County residents. Its mission is to provide high-quality civil legal services to low-income and other vulnerable residents to ensure equal access to justice. Legal Aid lives through direct representation, legal advice and information, and community education. Its offices are in Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Santa Maria.
— Jennifer Smith for Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County.