Shiva F.Emrani

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Shiva focuses her practice exclusively on employment law. Shiva has extensive experience litigating and mediating employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, whistle-blower, wrongful termination, and other labor and employment matters in both state and federal court, as well as in binding arbitration. Additionally, Shiva defends employers in administrative proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Employment Development Department (EDD), and federal, state, and local fair employment practice agencies. Shiva has been successful in obtaining verdicts for her clients in trial as well as binding arbitration. Shiva has also been successful in securing dismissal on summary judgment at trial, as well as recouping attorney fees in connection with successful summary judgments.

Shiva also provides advice and counseling to employers on day-to-day human resources and employee relations issues, such as compliance with state and federal employment laws including wage and hour, leave of absence, employee handbooks and personnel policies, discipline/termination decisions, disciplinary and performance counseling, reasonable accommodations/interactive process, internal complaints and investigations, and exempt/non-exempt classifications.

  • JD, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles

    St. Thomas More Honor Society

  • BA, University of California, Los Angeles

    Magna cum laude

  • California
  • US District Court, Central District of California
  • US Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of California

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