Maria Salinas Mendoza

Practice Overview

Maria Salinas Mendoza is a member of Hoge Fenton’s Business Litigation and Real Estate and Land Use practice groups. She is an effective litigator who represents individual and corporate clients in all phases of litigation. Her practice focuses on representation of real estate agents and brokers in intricate real estate disputes, including misrepresentation, failure to disclose, and breach of fiduciary actions. She also handles breach of contract disputes, and construction defect cases. 

Maria joined Hoge Fenton in September 2022 as a post-bar law clerk and was promoted to associate attorney in November 2022.

Background

Maria received her J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, (formerly the University of California, Hastings College of the Law). During law school, she assisted detained asylum seekers in filling out asylum applications and was a member of the UC Hastings Pro Bono Society. Maria was a senior staff editor and author with the UC Hastings Journal on Race and Poverty where she published an article titled “Protecting California’s Farmworkers During the Wildfire Crisis: The State’s Response and the Need for Reform.” Maria was also a student mediator with the UC Hastings Mediation Clinic, where she earned a CALI award for earning the highest grade in the class.  Outside of law school, Maria served as Vice President of Diversity Initiatives with the Latino Law Students’ Association.

Practice Areas

• Business Litigation
• Real Estate and Land Use

Languages

Spanish, Portuguese

Education

J.D., University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, (formerly the University of California, Hastings College of the Law)
B.A., Political Science and Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Admissions

California
U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of California