NEDA MANSOORIAN NAMED CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER AT MCMANIS FAULKNER
Trial Firm Follows Corporate Lead to Maximize Clients’ Legal Investment
SAN JOSE, Calif.; Mar. 24, 2008 – McManis Faulkner, a leading Northern California trial firm representing both individuals and corporations, elevates Partner Neda Mansoorian to the position of Chief Legal Officer (CLO) within the firm. The CLO position is new to McManis and unique among law firms, though it is standard practice for corporations.
“We work with numerous corporate clients, and based on our experience with their legal departments, we realized there would be great value in structuring our firm in a parallel manner," says James McManis, head of the firm. “In the corporate setting, the CLO helps to manage legal resources to take full advantage of individual or firm strengths, as well as managing accompanying budgets for greater efficiencies, and to avoid surprises. We see this as a vital function, and in empowering Neda as our CLO, our clients can be confident they are getting the maximum value for their dollar. For our part, the firm is better able to contain case costs and manage our resources across an ever-increasing case load."
As McManis Faulkner’s CLO, Mansoorian uses her extensive trial experience to work across multiple client service teams and manage multiple cases. A restaurateur at age 21, she founded a successful business before even entering law school, and this real-world business background gives Mansoorian a keen insight into the opportunities and challenges faced by businesses, both large and small.
Mansoorian’s practice emphasizes high-technology litigation, as well as matters involving professional negligence, products liability and general negligence, high-asset marital dissolutions, employer liability, wrongful termination, real estate disputes and breach of contract, among others. Mansoorian has tried cases before juries and judges, and she has expertise in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), having participated in numerous mediations and arbitrations.
The immediate two-term past president of Santa Clara County Bar Association Women Lawyers Section, Mansoorian maintains a range of professional involvements, including: a faculty member for the University of San Francisco’s Intensive Advocacy Program; a member of the Board and Executive Committee for the Santa Clara County Bar Association; a fellow of The American Bar Foundation; a member of the AAJ (Women Trial Lawyers Caucus and Mentor Program); a member of the American Inns of Court – William A. Ingram Inn; and a member of President’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Diversity. Mansoorian earned her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law (1999) and her B.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (1994).