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Bethany J. Ring

Senior Associate

Ms. Ring specializes in highly complicated public entity and corporate defense litigation with an outstanding record of successfully representing clients in complex, multi-faceted and multi-party cases.   Ms. Ring excels in situations that require strategic analysis of technical data and transforming complexity to clarity for the court and jury and the disassembly of opposing expert testimony.

In addition to her legal accomplishments and education, Ms. Ring has also completed post-graduate work in mathematics and engineering and holds seventeen years of experience as a scientific expert in cases that depended on civil engineering and environmental science testimony.

Ms. Ring’s work has been published in both legal and scientific journals.  While completing her legal education, Ms. Ring earned top academic honors.  Ms. Ring also drafted and submitted three United States Supreme Court briefs, two in support of writ of certiorari (Valent v. Saul, Guedes v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) and one on merits (June Medical Services v. Gee). She has had two articles published in the Chapman Law Review and was recently invited to speak at the Chapman Law Review Symposium on the Non-Delegation and Chevron Deference Doctrines.  Ms. Ring will also complete her MBA in 2026 at University of California Irvine in order to deepen her understanding of the fiscal and organizational structure of the public and corporate entities that she represents.

    • March 2023 – present, Orange County Waste Management Commissioner.
    • 2020 – present, Associate Attorney, Graves & King LLP
    • 2019 – 2020, Law Clerk, Graves & King LLP
    • 2018 – 2019, Law Clerk, Meyers Nave
    • 2017 – 2020, Research Assistant, Donald Kochan, Associate Dean for Research & Faculty Development, Chapman University Fowler School of Law
    • 2002 – 2017, Senior Forensic Scientist, Hromadka & Associates
    • 2001 – 2002, Forensic Scientist, Integral Consultants, Inc
    • 2000 – 2001, Scientist, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc
    • Riverside Bar Association
    • Orange County Bar Association
    • Los Angeles County Bar Association
    • American Planning Association
    • Environmental Law Institute
    • American Bar Association – Environment, Energy and Resources Section, State & Local Govt Section, Science & Technology Law Section
    • American Planning Ass’n, Planning and Law Division 36th Annual Smith-Babcock- Williams Student Writing Competition, 3rd place nationally
    • CALI Excellence for the Future awards (highest grade in law school class): Civil Procedure, Legal Research & Writing, Wills & Trusts, First Amendment & Equal Protection, Constitutional Jurisprudence Clinic
    • Ring, B., Chevron Deference: An Empirical Review of Rigor of Application at the District Court Level, Chapman Law Review (in print, Spring 2021)
    • Ring, B., Ripples in the Pond: United States Supreme Court Decision Impacts v. Reality, 23 Chapman Law Review 205 (Winter 2020)
    • Rao, P., Hromadka II, T.V., Huxley, C., Souders, D., Jordan, N., Yen, C.C., Bristow, E., Biering, C., Horton, S., Espinosa, B. (prior married surname), Assessment of Computer Modeling Accuracy in Floodplain Hydraulics, International Journal of Modeling and Simulation (December 20, 2016)
    • Espinosa, B., Hromadka II, T.V., Perez, R., Comparison of Radar Data Versus Rainfall Data, Methods X2 Elsevier (Oct 2015) e423-e431
    • Hromadka II, T.V., McInvale, D., Phillips, M., Espinosa, B., Assessment of Ice Volume Changes in the Cryosphere via Simplified Heat Transport Model, American Journal of Climate Change (December 2014) Vol. 3, No 5, p. 421-428
    • Hromadka II, T.V., McInvale, D., Gatzke, B., Phillips, M., Espinosa, B., A Cumulative Departure Model of the Cryosphere during the Pleistocene, ASCE Journal of Cold Regions Engineering (April 2014)
    • Hromadka II, T.V., Phillips, M., Rao, P., Espinosa, B., Hromadka III, T., Rainfall Infiltration Return Frequency Estimates, Journal of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (October 2013) p. 595-609
    • Hromadka II, T.V., Phillips, M., Rao, P., Espinosa, B., Perez, R., Barton, M., What Rainfall Return Frequency?, Journal of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (July 2013) Vol. 3, No. 3, p. 385-396
    • Espinosa, B., Water Quality Data for Los Angeles & Ventura Counties, Floodplain Management Conference – Lake Tahoe (September 23-26, 2001) (presentation)
    • Martelli, M., Johnston, B. (maiden name), Global attractivity and forward neural networks, Applied Mathematics Letters (1995) Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 77-83
    • California
    • Masters in Business Administration, University of California – Irvine (June 2026)
    • Juris Doctor, Chapman University Fowler School of Law, 2020 (Cum Laude • Senior Symposium Editor, Chapman Law review 2019-2020 • Staff Editor, Chapman Law Review 2018-2019 • Honor Council Chair, 2019-2020 • Honor Council Committee, 2018-2019 • Office of Law School Advocate, 2017-2018)
    • Master of Arts, Mathematics, California State University Fullerton, 2001
    • Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, California State University Fullerton, 1996