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Sera, Rena G. Senior Counsel

Sera, Rena G. Senior Counsel

Practice Focus

Rena G. Sera is senior counsel in Tressler’s San Francisco office and a member of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. Her practice includes defending premises liability and habitability matters, as well as employment discrimination, medical malpractice, construction defect and other general liability matters. 

Professional Background

Rena has extensive experience handling cases through trial preparation. She has experience with percipient and expert depositions, court appearances, pre-trial motions, propounding and responding to discovery, budgeting, client reporting and creating litigation plans.  Prior to becoming an attorney, Rena worked as a certified paralegal for five years. 

While in law school, Rena participated in competitive mock trial, and in 2014, she won first place in San Francisco Trial Lawyer’s Association’s annual “Best of the Bay” Mock Trial Competition. In 2015, she competed in the National Ethics Trial Competition. Rena received CALI Awards for Legal Research and Writing during law school. In addition, she was a judicial extern for the Honorable Stuart Hing of the Alameda County Superior Court. After taking the bar, Rena was a volunteer at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Asian American Bar Association of Northern California, Member 

  • Association of Defense Counsel – Northern California, Member   

  • Contra Costa County Bar Association, Member and Treasurer of the Employment Law Section from 2019-2020 

  • Filipino Bar Association of Northern California, Member and Community Outreach Co-Director from 2019-2020 

Personal Life

In her free time, Rena enjoys spending time with her husband and two children, cooking, trying different restaurants, reading books and watching Korean dramas. 

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