Attorney · Circle Law
Niki Mehan
Trial Attorney
With more than thirty-five jury trials, she has trained incoming public defenders in Los Angeles and represented the Oakland Raiders.
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Ms. Mehan has handled a breadth of litigation matters, from civil to criminal.
Ms. Mehan tried more than thirty-five cases to a jury as a deputy public defender in Los Angeles and Contra Costa Counties, handling cases from intake through verdict and appeal. In Los Angeles County, she was appointed to train incoming deputy public defenders and tried serious cases.
In Contra Costa County, she successfully advocated to make civil conservatorship placement hearings standard practice in the county while carrying a substantial criminal caseload.
Before entering public defense, Ms. Mehan handled complex commercial litigation at Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in San Francisco, where she was on the team that represented the Oakland Raiders.
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 regulatory matters in large-scale litigation.