Shadie Berenji

As the founder of Berenji Law Firm, APC, Shadie Berenji provides legal representation to clients in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Ana, Irvine, Newport Beach and throughout Southern California. She focuses her practice on representing employees in labor and employment law matters, generally handling cases that involve contract negotiations, discrimination, employee rights, harassment, wrongful termination, and wage and hour issues.Before receiving a Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Ms. Berenji attended the University of California Los Angeles. From there, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology and political science in 2000.Having begun her legal career representing some of the nation's largest employers with a prominent employment law firm, Ms. Berenji gained valuable knowledge about how employers view employment dispute claims. In her private practice, she draws on this experience to help her aggressively advocate on behalf of employees who have had their rights violated. Ms. Berenji has achieved high rates of success in helping her clients to obtain favorable resolutions to their legal issues.In order to best serve her clients, Ms. Berenji is admitted to practice law in the state of California, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.Beyond her work in the courtroom, Ms. Berenji is an active member of the legal community. She is a member of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California, the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Inc., the California Employment Lawyers Association, the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, the Iranian American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles.