Rodolfo E. Rivera Aquino is a Deputy Legislative Counsel. He joined the office in 2025.

Mr. Rivera Aquino is assigned to a branch of the office that handles laws relating to alcoholic beverage control, business, civil law, financial institutions, healing arts, housing and community development, land use, local government, private employment, professions and vocations, public contracts, public employment, retirement, state government, taxation and unemployment insurance.

Prior to joining the office, Mr. Rivera Aquino was an associate attorney for private law firms, where he specialized in employment and complex, high-profile state enforcement actions involving privacy and other consumer protection laws. During law school, he interned for the California Supreme Court. Before attending law school, he worked for the Department of Finance as an analyst.

Mr. Rivera Aquino received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where he served as Senior Publishing Editor with the California Law Review. Mr. Rivera Aquino has a bachelor’s degree in political science, also from University of California, Berkeley.

Mr. Rivera Aquino is a member of the California State Bar.