Benson, Jay A.

Shadie L. Berenji focuses her legal practice on exclusively representing employees with workplace disputes.  Ms. Berenji has a vast array of experience in employment law litigation, with a particular emphasis on wage and hour violations.  Ms. Berenji has successfully represented employees in wage and hour class actions, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation and whistleblower lawsuits. 

Ms. Berenji draws on her impeccable education and work training to provide her clients with highly competent legal representation.  At the early age of 19, Ms. Berenji received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000.  She then earned her law degree from the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law in 2004.  Ms. Berenji became licensed to practice in all courts in the State of California, as well as the federal courts in the Ninth Circuit, in 2004.
 
Ms. Berenji began her legal career by working with first-tier law firms and receiving training from some of the best lawyers in the country.  Prior to establishing her law firm, Ms. Berenji worked at one of the largest employment law firms in the nation representing many of the country's largest employers.  During this time period, she received invaluable employment law training and learned how employers defend employment law cases and what strategies and tactics they use to defeat employees’ claims.  She also learned what motivates employers to settle or fight cases and the monetary value assigned to claims.  Ms. Berenji utilizes this experience to provide her clients with first-rate legal representation and anticipate attacks from the defense.

She is a member of the California State Bar, the Labor and Employment Law section of the California State Bar, the California Employment Lawyers Association, the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Consumers Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, the Iranian-American Bar Association, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, and the USC Law Alumni Association.