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i • ALBERTO J. PENA Mr. Pena engaged in a general private law practice in Brownsville Texas prior to moving to San Antonio in 1986. While in private practice, his clients included a local teachers' credit union, a water conservation and improvement district and a drainage district. In addition, he served as the civil service director for the City of Brownsville Firefighters' and Police Officers' Civil Service Commission. Upon his arrival to San Antonio, he joined the City Attorney's office and was assigned to advise the city's Firefighters' and Police Officers' Civil Service Commission and later assumed the duties of legal advisor for the fire and police departments. While serving as the Police Legal Advisor, Mr. Pena handled numerous third party statutory and contractual disciplinary arbitration hearings, as well as arbitration hearings of grievances arising under the firefighters and police officers collective bargaining agreements. Mr. Pena joined Denton, Navarro, Rocha & Bernal in April, 2001 as an Associate attorney and is a member of the Bexar County Bar Association, the Texas City Attorneys Association, Federal Bar Association, and admitted to practice in the Southern and Western Districts of Texas and the United States Supreme Court. As an Associate attorney, Mr. Pena has participated in negotiating various Collective Bargaining Agreements with the firefighters' and police officers associations for the City of Corpus Christi, and assisted in negotiations for San Antonio, Galveston, and Houston as well as serving as Lead Negotiator for certain sessions. Mr. Pena also served as Lead Negotiator for the current Corpus Christi Firefighters Agreement and the Deputy Sheriff's agreement with Bexar County, and provides representation in subsequent contractual arbitration hearing and continuing consultation regarding contract matters. In addition, he has served as a consultant on overtime issues under the Fair Labor Standard Act and state law and assisted in representing the City of Corpus Christi in several overtime suits by City firefighters and police officers.