Bridge The Gap
To A Stronger Tomorrow With Sabharwal Law Offices
Sunena Sabharwal
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Practice Areas:
- Divorce-Including Complex Asset Division and Custody Matters
- Custody & Visitation
- Business & Commercial Law
- Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
- Harassment In A Variety Of Contexts
- Products Liability
- Contracts
- Employment Law
Biography
Ms. Sabharwal has been an attorney for over 30 years, handling a wide range of matters in civil and family law. Her wide range of experience and breadth of knowledge in real estate, business, employment, family law, consumer, construction, and tort / personal injury matters, as well as her jury trial and court trial experience, provide useful insight into each practice area.
Her mission is to provide quality legal services using cost-effective, economical processes to achieve maximum benefit for the client.
She has represented individuals, developers, trucking companies, restaurants, businesses, real estate brokers, private institutions, contractors, executive and non-executive employees, employers, homeowners and children.
She has, either solely or in a major role with another attorney, obtained results that include:
- $3.5 million settlement in a wrongful death / trucking accident
- $1 million in child molest case
- $850,000 settlement during trial for two molested children, against a private institution; $500,000 settlement for molested children against a public entity
- $800,000 in product defect case
- $700,000 in a defective tire / rollover case
- $500,000 jury verdict against school district for failing to take action to prevent abuse
- $400,000 settlement just before trial for child against a school district for harassment
- $200,000 settlement for child injured on school grounds
- Confidential settlement in favor of developer against major oil company for sale of contaminated property, which included clean up of property in addition to monetary damages
- Verdict in favor of employer for claim of wrongful termination and slander
- $300,000 verdict in favor of commercial tenant against commercial landlord for harassment
- $340,000 slip and fall case at major department store
- $237,500 settlement for head of Human Resources of a company for retaliation for investigating the CEO
- Two settlements for two separate claimants for palimony / "Marvin" claims, each in excess of one million dollars; third for $750,000 which was one-half of the estate, settled half-way during trial. Numerous other settlements of "Marvin" claims.
- Successful defense of palimony / "Marvin" claims
- Complex divorce property division of foreign start-up corporation
- Complex divorce support case involving medical evaluations, psychological testing, vocational assessments
- Complex divorce case involving division of founder's stock options
- Complex divorce property division in case involving more than 40 properties around the nation
Education
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), San Francisco, California
- J.D. - 06/1990
- University of California, Berkeley
- B.A. - 06/1987
- Honors: Graduated with Honors
Bar Admission
- Admitted to all courts in the State of California
Professional Associations
- Alameda County Bar Association, Member
- Founding Board Member of the South Asian Bar Association, Former Treasurer, Secretary and Vice President
- Women Lawyers of Alameda County, Former Treasurer
Current Employment Position
- Attorney