Shadie L. Berenji

Shadie 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. After graduating from high school at the early age of 15, 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 has achieved numerous six and seven figure settlements for employees that suffered discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation and/or did not receive proper wages for hours worked or tasks completed. Several of Ms. Berenji’s settlements have been featured in news articles published by Bloomberg BNA, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, and Law360.In 2023, she obtained the largest disability discrimination jury verdict in Los Angeles, and one of the top 10 labor and employment law jury verdicts in California. Ms. Berenji recently protected her clients' constitutional right to a jury trial by obtaining favorable rulings from the California Court of Appeal, Second District in the matters of Gerald Lange v. Monster Energy Company (2020) 46 Cal.App.5th 436; Selena Towell v. O'Gara Coach Company, LLC (Oct. 27, 2022) 2022 WL 15205912; Chris Mills v. Facility Solutions Group, Inc. (2022) 84 Cal.App.5th 1035, and Selena Towell v. Move, Inc. (July 24, 2024) 2024 WL 3517397. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Shadie L. Berenji included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Super Lawyers Top Attorneys in Southern California, 2018-Present Super Lawyers Top Women Attorneys, 2018 Super Lawyers Top 100 Up-And-Coming Attorneys, 2017 Super Lawyers Top 50 Up-And-Coming Women Attorneys, 2017 Top 10 Settlements in Labor & Employment Law Cases in California, 2020 Top 50 Settlements in Labor & Employment law cases in California, 2020, 2017 Top 100 Settlements in All Practice Areas in California, 2017 Top 100 Attorneys by The National Advocates Top 100 Lawyers, 2015 - Present Number 1 Disability Discrimination Jury Verdict in Los Angeles, 2023 Top 10 Jury Verdict in Labor & Employment Law Cases in California, 2023 Top 50 Jury Verdict in California, 2023 Other Sources of Feedback About Shadie L. Berenji Included on the 2026Southern California Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2024 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2023 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2021 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2018 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2017 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2016 Southern California Super Lawyers list 2015 Southern California Super Lawyers list

• Attorney

• California, 2004
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2004
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2004
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2004

• California Employment Lawyers Association
• Consumer Attorneys of Association of Los Angeles
• Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Iranian American Bar Association
• Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• The USC Law Alumni Association
• California State Bar, Labor and Employment Law section
• National Employment Lawyers Associations