Our Team

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 Yalda Satar is a seasoned Civil Rights and Employment Law attorney with a strong track record of championing workers’ rights and challenging discrimination, harassment, and retaliation in the workplace. She has extensive experience litigating complex employment matters in both state and federal courts, including cases involving sexual harassment, disability and pregnancy discrimination, racial bias, unpaid wages, wrongful termination, and more. 

Yalda has spearheaded numerous high-profile and high-impact investigations and lawsuits addressing violations of civil liberties, including workplace injustices, police misconduct, excessive force, and infringements on First Amendment rights. She is deeply committed to policy reform, particularly in advocating for the religious freedoms and humane treatment of pretrial detainees and incarcerated individuals.

Through her advocacy work, Yalda has lectured at various law schools and spoken on several panels about criminal justice reform, employees’ rights, Fourth Amendment issues, and the First Amendment. She is a former California Women's Foundation and Women’s Policy Institute (WPI) fellow, former Lawyers for Good Government Chairperson, and has a published op-ed piece in the Center for Constitutional Rights publication focusing on women’s rights in the criminal justice system.