Tahmeena Ahmed is a Senior Partner and the Firm’s Managing Partner for Client Relations. She also serves as a Regional manager overseeing the Los Angeles, Tarzana and Ventura offices. Ms. Ahmed received her Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the Honors College, majoring in Psychology, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. After earning an American Jurisprudence Award in Torts, an Academic Achievement Award in Employment Law, and her Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 1992, she practiced entertainment, civil, and bankruptcy law. She joined Johnston & Auerbach in 1994 as in-house defense counsel for Fremont Compensation Insurance Company. Focusing on Fremont’s “zero tolerance” policy, she spent the next four years aggressively litigating thousands of cases and brought that expertise to Bradford & Barthel, LLP in July of 1998. Ms. Ahmed became Managing Attorney for the Tarzana office in December of 2000. She was then named Partner in April of 2002. During her 12 year plus tenure as the managing attorney, the Tarzana office flourished, growing from 2 to 24 attorneys, making this office one of the largest and most experienced in the firm. Leaving behind the day to day operations of managing Tarzana in 2011, she was named Managing Partner, Client Relations, bringing more global oversight to her within the Firm. With her years of successful litigation experience, Ms. Ahmed is routinely selected by clients for her negotiation skills and her creative approaches to resolution. Additionally, she has expanded her practice of workers’ compensation defense to include Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) via mediations and arbitrations dealing with Collective Bargaining Agreements and Carve-Out programs. Ms. Ahmed is a Certified Specialist, Workers’ Compensation Section, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. She was approved as a Statewide Arbitrator effective July 26, 2007. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California and the Supreme Court of the State of California. Representative Cases
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