Negeen Sadeghi-Movahed is the Chief Civil Trial Counsel at Shield Law APC and one of California’s leading tenant trial lawyers. She has built her career holding slumlords and sleazy landlords accountable — the ones who let families live in unsafe apartments, ignore habitability issues, or retaliate against tenants who speak up.
Negeen has represented hundreds of tenants in discrimination, retaliation, nonpayment, habitability, and nuisance cases. She doesn’t just settle quietly — she takes cases to trial and wins. Her jury trial victories against landlords have resulted in rent abatements, damages, and orders for major repairs, forcing property owners to finally fix the unsafe conditions they allowed for far too long. When landlords try to bully or intimidate tenants into silence, Negeen meets them in court and makes sure her clients’ voices are heard.
Before joining Shield Law APC, Negeen was the Supervising Attorney of the Housing Unit for Community Legal Aid SoCal, where she led one of the largest eviction defense teams in Southern California. There, she trained and mentored a new generation of tenant lawyers to fight back against landlord abuse. She has also taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, one of the top 5 trial programs in the country, passing on her litigation skills to the next wave of trial attorneys.
Beyond the courtroom, Negeen serves on the Board of Directors for the Color of Excellence and volunteers with the Iranian American Women Foundation, where she first began her community involvement over a decade ago.
Negeen earned her J.D. from American University’s Washington College of Law, where she was a member of the Mock Trial Honor Society and a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic. She received her B.A. in Political Science from UCLA, where she was elected the university’s first Transfer Student Representative on the Undergraduate Student Association Council.
Her advocacy and analysis on tenant rights, feminism, race relations, and social justice have been featured in The Washington Post, ABC’s Nightline, BBC World Service’s Newsday, Al Jazeera America, and other major outlets. She regularly speaks at conferences, workshops, and in classrooms on housing justice, trial practice, and strategies to fight landlord abuse.
