A Southern California native, Mr. DeSantis earned his Juris Doctor degree at the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he also obtained a Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the nation’s top-ranked Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. In law school, he served as Business and Technical Editor for the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, completed internships at the Law Offices of the Public Defender (Riverside County) and the Employment Litigation Division of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, and prosecuted violent criminals as a Certified Law Clerk in the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.