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Bob Amirian, Esq.
Founding Partner & Managing Attorney
Amparo Law Firm PLLC
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Direct line: (212) XXX-XXXX
Email: bob@amparolawfirm.com
Languages: English · Farsi · Spanish
Bar admissions: New York · California · District of Columbia
Court admissions: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit · U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, and Northern Districts of New York · Federal courts of California and the District of Columbia · New York State and California state courts
Bob Amirian founded Amparo Law Firm to bring federal-court legal training to New York plaintiff’s representation — a practice area that has historically been dominated by volume-driven firms competing on advertising rather than craft.
His path to that work began at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he clerked under Chief Judge Sharon Prost early in his career — an experience that shaped his approach to legal writing, motion practice, and the discipline of building a record that holds up under appellate scrutiny.
After his clerkship, Bob practiced at Venable LLP, where he handled complex commercial and intellectual property matters before federal courts and administrative tribunals. That training — the rigor of BigLaw federal practice combined with the perspective of a federal appellate clerkship — is the foundation of how he builds plaintiff’s cases at Amparo.
Bob is admitted to practice in New York, California, and the District of Columbia. He is fluent in English, Farsi, and Spanish, and brings particular focus to representing clients from immigrant communities — including New York’s substantial Persian, Latin American, and other communities — where access to high-caliber legal representation is too often limited by language and economics.
Georgetown University Law Center
Juris Doctor, 2001
Honors: Cum Laude
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts
Honors: Summa Cum Laude
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Law Clerk to the Honorable Sharon Prost, Chief Judge
The Federal Circuit is the federal appellate court with jurisdiction over patent, trademark, government contracts, veterans’ affairs, and certain other specialized areas. A federal appellate clerkship — and particularly one with the Chief Judge — is among the most selective positions in the legal profession. The training in legal writing, judicial reasoning, and the discipline of opinion-drafting that comes from a Federal Circuit clerkship is one of the most valuable credentials in American law.
That training shapes how Bob builds cases. The clean record. The tightly drafted pleadings. The precise framing of legal issues. The respect for the trial court that comes from having seen, from the appellate side, what makes a record hold up.
Founding Partner & Managing Attorney
2026 – Present
Founder of Amparo Law Firm, a New York plaintiff’s firm focused on construction accident representation, motor vehicle and personal injury cases, and securities investor rights work. Bob is the firm’s managing attorney and represents Amparo’s clients personally — a deliberate structural choice that distinguishes Amparo from volume-driven firms where senior attorneys rarely interact with clients after intake.
Founding Attorney
[Year] – Present
Bob continues to operate California Personal Injury Attorneys (cpinjuryattorneys.com), an Encino, California-based plaintiff’s firm focused on personal injury and motor vehicle cases in California. CPIA and Amparo Law Firm are separate firms with separate operations; Bob’s California-based clients are represented through CPIA, and his New York-based clients are represented through Amparo. Amparo Law Firm and CPIA have no overlapping client matters.
Associate
[Years]
Practiced at Venable’s [office and group] handling complex commercial, intellectual property, and civil litigation matters before federal and state courts.
Law Clerk, Chief Judge Sharon Prost
[Years]
At Amparo Law Firm, Bob focuses on:
(Note: Bob does not “specialize” in any specific area as that term has formal meaning under New York Rules of Professional Conduct 7.4. He concentrates his practice on the areas listed.)
Bob represents clients in English, Farsi, and Spanish. He has particular focus on representing:
District of Columbia — admitted [Year]
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
[To be populated as recognition accumulates. Common categories: Super Lawyers Rising Star (years pre-2026), Super Lawyers (post-2026 if applicable), Best Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell ratings, AVVO ratings. Do not list anything that hasn’t been earned.]
Bob can be reached at (212) XXX-XXXX or bob@amparolawfirm.com. New case inquiries go through the firm’s main intake at info@amparolawfirm.com or the contact form for a free, confidential consultation.
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EOF# JORDAN SAKNI — CO-FOUNDER & COO (BIO PAGE)
Jordan Sakni
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
Amparo Law Firm PLLC
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Email: jordan@amparolawfirm.com
Languages: English
Jordan Sakni is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Amparo Law Firm PLLC. He is a Juris Doctor candidate at [law school name] and is not currently admitted to practice law in any jurisdiction. All legal services at Amparo Law Firm are provided by Bob Amirian, Esq., or other attorneys admitted to practice in the relevant jurisdiction.
Jordan’s role at the firm is operational and strategic. He does not provide legal advice, represent clients, appear in court, sign legal documents, or perform any function that constitutes the practice of law. His contribution to the firm’s work — described below — is the developer-side perspective on construction-related cases and the operational discipline of running a serious litigation practice.
Jordan Sakni co-founded Amparo Law Firm to bring something New York plaintiff’s representation has historically lacked: a working real estate developer reading construction injury cases alongside the lawyers.
For the better part of a decade, Jordan has run Simba Property Group, an active New York real estate development and private equity firm. He has signed general contractor contracts, sat through OAC meetings as the owner’s representative, supervised subcontractors on active sites, read daily logs in real time as projects unfolded, and watched — sometimes pushed back on — the budget pressures that produce safety failures on construction projects.
That perspective is the second layer of analysis on every construction-related case Amparo handles. Bob Amirian’s federal-court training drives the legal theory and the trial preparation. Jordan’s developer-side experience drives how the operational record is read — the AIA contract structure, the schedule of values, the change orders, the safety meeting minutes, the OSHA citation history, the day-to-day pressures of getting a building up under deadline.
It is, to our knowledge, the only NYC plaintiff’s firm where that combination exists.
Jordan also serves as the firm’s Chief Operating Officer — responsible for the operational systems, the technology infrastructure, the intake processes, and the client communication standards that make a serious litigation practice run. The discipline that produces a well-managed real estate development project is the same discipline that produces a well-managed law firm.
[Law school name]
Juris Doctor candidate (anticipated graduation [year])
New York University
Master of Science, Real Estate Development
NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate
[Undergraduate institution]
[Degree]
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer
2026 – Present
Principal
[Year] – Present
Simba Property Group is a New York-based real estate development and private equity firm. Jordan oversees the firm’s development pipeline, asset management, and investor relations. The portfolio includes commercial holdings in Queens (including a USPS-leased property in Astoria) and a hospitality asset in Greene County, New York (The Häus Windham, an 11-unit boutique short-term rental hotel).
[Role]
[Years]
[Description of the role at NYS DFS — adapt based on Jordan’s actual title and work there. The DFS background is a meaningful credential for a law firm operations role.]
Most plaintiff’s lawyers — even experienced ones — read a construction case the way a litigator reads it: depositions, OSHA citations, expert reports, the story they’ll tell at trial. That works. But it misses things.
A working developer reads the same documents differently.
When Jordan reads an OSHA citation, he doesn’t just see a number — he sees whether the GC contested it, whether the safety officer was on site that day, whether the citation was the third or fourth in a sequence, whether the abatement was actually performed or was paper-only. When he reads a daily log, he sees whether the schedule was running late and pressure was building. When he reads a change order, he sees whether the safety provisions got value-engineered out. When he reviews an AIA contract structure, he knows where the responsibility actually lies — not just where the paper says it does.
That perspective changes what Amparo asks in discovery, what we look for in the OAC meeting minutes, and how we frame the operational story for a jury. It’s not a substitute for legal expertise — that’s Bob’s role — but it’s a layer of analysis that doesn’t exist at most plaintiff’s firms.
As COO, Jordan is responsible for:
This work is operational, not legal. It does not constitute the practice of law and is performed by Jordan in his capacity as Chief Operating Officer.
Jordan is currently in his final stretches of law school and intends to sit for the New York bar examination upon graduation. Upon admission, his role at Amparo Law Firm will evolve to incorporate practice as a New York attorney. Until then, his role remains strictly operational and strategic.
Jordan can be reached at jordan@amparolawfirm.com for operational, business, and strategic matters. Legal inquiries — including new case inquiries — should be directed to Bob Amirian or to the firm’s main intake at info@amparolawfirm.com.
Attorney Advertising. Jordan Sakni is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Amparo Law Firm PLLC. He is a J.D. candidate and is not currently admitted to practice law in any jurisdiction. All legal services at Amparo Law Firm are provided by Bob Amirian, Esq., or other attorneys admitted to practice in the relevant jurisdiction. Jordan does not provide legal advice and does not represent clients in his capacity as Chief Operating Officer. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Submitting an inquiry through this website does not create an attorney-client relationship.
