Leslie McAdam graduated from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo in 1997, with a B.S. (summa cum laude) in Forestry and Natural Resources.  While at Cal Poly, she studied overseas at the Universidad de Granada, in Granada, Spain, and earned a Spanish minor.  During college, she was also a deejay at Cal Poly’s radio station, KCPR, and participated in a summer internship as a Wilderness Ranger in Yosemite National Park.  She received her law degree (cum laude) and Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in 2000.  At Lewis and Clark, she served as an Associate Editor of the law review, Environmental Law.  Leslie was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2000.

After law school, Leslie served as a deputy legislative counsel for the Legislative Counsel Bureau, a nonpartisan state agency, in Sacramento.  Her duties included drafting legislation relating to energy and the environment.  She returned to her native Ventura County and joined Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP as a litigation associate in 2002.

Leslie has been actively involved in the Ventura County Bar Association.  She was President of Barristers in 2004, spearheaded the all-day Bridging the Gap event in 2004, and has been an ex officio member of both the Ventura County Bar Association Board (2004) and the Ventura County Trial Lawyers Association Board (2006).  Leslie’s group in the Jerome H. Bernstein Inns of Court won the best presentation award (2005).  Leslie has also been actively involved in the CPA/Law Society Scholarship Committee since its inception.

Leslie represents individuals and entities in real estate, business, and employment disputes.

Leslie lives in a drafty old farmhouse on a small orange tree farm in Bardsdale with her husband Tom and young son Joseph.