Sunena Sabharwal - Berkeley, CA

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