As McManis Faulkner’s Chief Legal Officer (CLO), Neda Mansoorian works across multiple client service teams to leverage her courtroom know-how and business acumen to benefit the firm’s clients.  A restaurateur at age 21, Mansoorian founded a successful business before entering law school.  This real-world business background gives her a keen and pragmatic insight into the opportunities and challenges faced by businesses, both large and small.

Although Mansoorians’s practice has frequently emphasized high-technology litigation matters, her clients are diverse and include corporations, small businesses, and individuals with legal disputes covering a wide range of issues. 

Mansoorian has extensive trial experience.  She continues to try cases before juries and the bench.  She also has expertise in alternative dispute resolution (ADR), having participated in numerous mediations and arbitrations.  Her ability and perseverance in representing clients in cases involving intellectual property, professional negligence, products liability and general negligence, high-asset marital dissolutions, wrongful termination, real estate disputes, and breach of contract, has resulted in many successful outcomes.

EDUCATION
• University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Political Science, 1994 
• Santa Clara University, School of Law, J.D., 1999

ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
• State Bar of California, 2000

• U.S. District Courts, The Northern and Eastern Districts of California

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