Yoshida, Gerald C.

Navid Yadegar is the managing partner of Yadegar, Minoofar & Soleymani LLP. Prior to forming his own law firm in 2006, Navid worked at two preeminent law firms in Los Angeles (Proskauer Rose LLP and Arnold & Porter) handling complex commercial and employment litigation for large corporate and individual clients. In 2006, Navid left the large firm practice to create a litigation boutique where he could combine his litigation experience with his understanding of changing business environments as they intersect with law, public policy and technology to bring his clients the highest level of legal service, in an efficient and effective manner.

As an employment attorney, Navid represents corporate and individual clients in a variety of matters, including wrongful termination, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, executive employment contract disputes/negotiation, and trade secret and unfair competition.  In addition, Navid continues to represent clients in all forms of business and commercial matters, including partnership/shareholder disputes, contract disputes, and disputes involving business practices.In addition to many favorable settlements for plaintiffs and defendants alike, Navid has substantial experience in seeing matters to the end. Navid’s notable professional achievements include:

•Successful defense of a managing member of an LLC against allegations of fraud and conversion by other members;
•Successful defense of the CEO of a corporation against allegations of fraud and conversion;
•Prevailed on appeal of a denial of an anti-SLAPP motion in a malicious prosecution claim;
•Successful defense of a property owner against allegations of personal injury resulting from a fall on the property;
•Successful defense of a malpractice claim against an accountant;
•Successful prosecution of embezzlement claims by a corporation against its former CEO;
•Successful defense of a request for a civil harassment restraining order;
•Successful defense of the manager of an international music band against claims by some of the former band members;
•Successful defense in an NASD arbitration of a multi-million dollar customer case brought against a broker-dealer;
•Successful defense in a JAMS arbitration of a hotel owner against a multi-million dollar indemnity claim brought by an international hotel management company; and
•Successful defense in federal court of a putative nationwide class action in which the plaintiff alleged defects in products that plaintiff contended had been sold for $4 billion to the U.S. market.