Arsh Niki Mehan

A. Niki Mehan is a litigator in California, who has handled more than 35 jury trials. Circle Law does criminal, plaintiff side work, insurance bad faith and family law.

Ms. Mehan has handled many cases as a deputy public defender in both Los Angeles County and in Contra Costa County, in all stages of litigation. In Los Angeles County, she was appointed to train incoming deputy public defenders. In Contra Costa County, she drafted and  carried a substantial criminal caseload, and successfully advocated to make civil conservatorship placement hearings standard practice in the county.

Before entering public defense, Ms. Mehan practiced commercial litigation at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, where she represented the Oakland Raiders in their fraud case against the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and handled white-collar, bankruptcy, contract, and class-action disputes.

Earlier in her career, she worked as a litigation consultant at the Law & Economics Consulting Group, applying economic and financial analysis to antitrust, intellectual-property, and energy matters for law firms and corporations.