Alaleh T. Khosrowpour

Overview

In her second decade of litigation practice, Alaleh Khosrowpour brings honed perspective and favorable results to employment defense advocacy involving discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, and wage and hour disputes. She also has extensive personal injury defense experience—catastrophic injury claims, premises liability, hospitality matters, and transportation matters—providing cross-disciplinary insight into damages analysis, expert witness management, and jury psychology that employment-only practitioners often lack. Having successfully handled thousands of matters throughout her legal career, Alaleh brings particularly valuable experience to workplace cases involving emotional distress damages, physical injuries, or accidents that give rise to overlapping workers’ compensation and tort claims.

Prior AmLaw 100 firm experience taught Alaleh that institutional clients need attorneys who understand how individual cases fit within broader litigation portfolios and risk management strategies. Alaleh knows, from first-hand experience, that in employment defense, decisions about one plaintiff's claims can establish precedents affecting entire workforces. She manages overlapping legal frameworks with awareness of how different causes of action interact and how defense strategies in one proceeding impact exposure in another—essential when cases present multiple theories requiring coordinated responses rather than siloed legal analysis.

Alaleh’s approach to advocacy, dispute resolution, and litigation emphasizes aggressive advocacy from initial claim receipt through trial. She challenges weak claims early on rather than allowing meritless cases to accumulate defense costs through prolonged discovery. Preparing every case as trial-ready often produces better settlement opportunities when opposing counsel recognizes preparation depth.

Publications

• Author, “Questioning the Constitutionality of Content-Based Restrictions on Internet Speech: A Case Note on Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union,” Volume 27, No. 1, Page 265 (2005), Whittier Law Review

Professional

• Member, Labor & Employment Section, California State Bar

Community

Alaleh is actively engaged in volunteer work within her community through her children’s school and extracurricular activities.