Firm Awards & Recognitions

Celebrating Excellence: A&W Attorneys Recognized Among the Nation’s Best

Aleshire & Wynder, LLP is thrilled to announce our 2025 Super Lawyers, Rising Stars, and Best Lawyers. We applaud our attorneys for their excellence, dedication, and unwavering pursuit of justice.

Super Lawyers

Congratulations to:

Equity Partner Dave Aleshire, Super Lawyer (2009-2025)
Partner Benjamin R. Jones, Rising Star (2024-2025)
Partner Priscilla George Rising Star (2023-2025)

Super Lawyers recognizes the top attorneys nationwide, across various practice areas and firm sizes, using a patented process of independent research and peer input. The lawyers selected include those with many years of experience, as well as the Rising Stars of the profession.

The Super Lawyers selection process selects attorneys on an annual, state-by-state basis using peer nominations and evaluations combined with independent research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement.

Best Lawyers in America

Congratulations to:

Equity Partner Keith Lemieux, Water Law
Of Counsel Norman A. Dupont, (2018-2025) Litigation - Environmental Law
Of Counsel Wayne Lemieux, Water Law

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. More than 116,000 industry-leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 17 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas worldwide.

For the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®, more than 12.2 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 71,000 leading lawyers honored in the new edition.

“Law Firm of the Year” awards recognize a single top firm for its work in a specific legal practice area nationwide. Awards are determined based on a handful of factors including lawyer feedback, the number of lawyers included in Best Lawyers™ for that firm and practice area, the number of office locations a firm has, historical analysis of the firm’s “Lawyer of the Year” awards, materials submitted by firms, and the firm’s overall scope and areas of expertise.

“Lawyer of the Year” honors are awarded annually to only one lawyer per practice area in each region with extremely high overall feedback from their peers, making it an exceptional distinction.

Lawyers are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

Top Boutique Law Firm

The Daily Journal recognized Aleshire & Wynder as a 2024 Top Boutique Law Firm in California. Read More

Best Places To Work

Aleshire & Wynder was named a 2024 Best Place to Work by the Orange County Business Journal. Read More

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Ben is dedicated to public service and has spent nearly his entire legal career representing cities and other local public agencies. Ben is a partner in the Irvine office and currently serves as Assistant City Attorney for the City of Carson and the City of Perris as well as Deputy City Attorney for the City of Rancho Palos Verdes. As Assistant City Attorney for Carson, he acts as primary cou...

Dave Aleshire has been practicing municipal, land use, zoning, and environmental law since receiving a JD from UCLA Law School and an MA from the UCLA School of Architecture & Urban Planning. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA degree from Stanford University. In 2015 he was named California Lawyer Attorney of the Year in the category of Municipal Law. Mr. Aleshire has served as City Attorne...

W. Keith Lemieux, Jr. chairs Aleshire & Wynder’s Water practice. A recognized expert on matters of water, environmental and public agency law, Lemieux currently serves as City Attorney for the cities of Ridgecrest and San Gabriel. Lemieux represents municipal and county water districts throughout California, irrigation districts, and groundwater sustainability agencies including the Indi...

Norman (Norm) A. Dupont represents public and private entities with more than 40 years of trial and appellate work. Norm's principal focus is environmental and municipal law work, although he has represented corporations in antitrust, contract, real property disputes, and corporate acquisitions. Norm's recent trials include a nine-month bench trial in the Orange County Superior Court involving gro...

Priscilla George is a Partner in the Riverside Office, focusing primarily on civil litigation and trial practice. Priscilla is also General Counsel for the South Montebello Irrigation District. Prior to joining the firm, Priscilla practiced as a civil litigator in both private practice insurance defense and in-house representation, during which she used her litigation experience to counsel co...

Wayne Lemieux brings more than 47 years of experience including representing public entities in many of the seminal water cases in Southern California. Lemieux estimates he has attended more than 8,000 public agency meetings over the past 47 years as agency counsel. He provides transactional advice and litigation services to municipal and county water districts, airports and other special dis...

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