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Amparo Law Firm is a New York plaintiff’s practice founded on a specific premise — that the most consequential cases deserve representation that combines federal-court legal craft with the operational fluency of someone who has actually run the kind of project at issue.
01 — Our Story
The name Amparo is Spanish for protection, shelter, and refuge — and in Latin legal tradition, the constitutional writ a citizen invokes when fundamental rights have been violated. That double meaning is not incidental. It is the brand in a word.
Amparo Law Firm was founded by Bob Amirian, Esq. after a career that began at UCLA, ran through Georgetown Law, a Federal Circuit clerkship for Chief Judge Sharon Prost, and BigLaw at Venable. He saw what serious cases look like at the highest level, and built Amparo to bring that level of craft to the plaintiff side.
Jordan Sakni co-founded the firm as Chief Operating Officer. His background runs through NYU Schack’s M.S. in Real Estate Development, the New York State Department of Financial Services (where he served as Chief Economist), and Simba Property Group, a NYC real-estate private-equity practice he principals. He is also a J.D. candidate at Touro Law, with bar admission expected in 2028 — but his role at Amparo is operational and strategic, not legal.
The firm sits at 1 World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. We focus on construction accident litigation, auto and personal-injury cases, and a related investor-rights practice that handles federal securities and shareholder matters under the brand Amparo Investor Rights.
02 — How We Practice
We are deliberately small. We take cases we believe in, and we put real attention behind each one. That choice has practical consequences: we develop tighter records, file cleaner papers, and prepare cases earlier than most firms our size.
Our approach is built around five working principles:
Bob personally represents Amparo’s clients. You will not be handed to a paralegal or to a junior associate you have never met.
Even in state court, our pleadings and discovery are built to the precision standard federal motion practice requires.
No fee unless we recover. Fee structure disclosed in writing before you sign anything. No upfront costs to the client.
When you cannot come to our office, we come to you. Bedside, at home, or wherever recovery requires.
English, Spanish, and Farsi — spoken fluently by the principals. Your matter is handled directly in your language; nothing important goes through translation.
03 — Pedigree Signal
Most plaintiff’s personal-injury cases sit in state court, and most plaintiff-side lawyers work exclusively in state court. We do too — but the federal-court training Bob brings from his clerkship and BigLaw years shapes how we develop a record before the case ever reaches a courtroom.
Federal motion practice demands a level of precision in pleadings and a discipline in discovery that most state-court PI work does not require. The cases we build look like federal cases: tighter pleadings, organized discovery, clear theories of liability, expert reports that hold up under scrutiny.
That preparation matters even when the case settles. The defense values a case based on what trial would look like. A case built to a federal-court standard reads as serious to opposing counsel — and that reads as risk on their balance sheet, which translates into recovery on yours.
Education
UCLA, summa cum laude
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D.
Clerkship
U.S. Court of Appeals,
Federal Circuit
Chief Judge Sharon Prost
BigLaw
Venable LLP
Walmart · Sodexo Marriott
Admissions
NY · CA · DC
USDC C.D. Cal. · S.D. Cal.
Languages
English · Spanish · Farsi
04 — Developer-Side Operator Insight
Jordan Sakni’s seat at the firm’s leadership table is what makes Amparo’s construction practice different. His background isn’t legal — it’s developer-side. NYC real estate development, NY State financial regulation, owner-operator of a boutique hotel upstate, principal of a real-estate PE practice.
What that means in a construction case: we read the GC contract structure the way the GC would read it. We understand the OAC meeting cadence, the schedule pressure that produces dangerous shortcuts, the safety-budget negotiation that decides whether the right harness gets specified. We know what an OSHA citation actually means in the contractor’s mind, and what it doesn’t.
This shows up before the case is filed. It shows up in the right early subpoenas. It shows up in deposition prep, where opposing counsel’s witness is no longer talking to a stranger about an industry they’ve never worked in.
Education
NYU Schack, M.S.
Real Estate Development
Touro Law, J.D. candidate
Public Sector
Chief Economist,
NY State Dept. of
Financial Services
Operator
Principal, Simba
Property Group (NYC RE PE)
Owner-operator, The Haüs Windham
Role at Amparo
Co-Founder &
Chief Operating Officer
Languages
English · Spanish · Farsi
Mr. Sakni is not currently admitted to practice law. All legal services at Amparo Law Firm PLLC are performed by attorneys admitted in the relevant jurisdiction.
05 — Languages We Speak
Three languages, spoken fluently — directly by the principals, not through interpreters. Many of the most consequential moments of a personal-injury case happen in conversation with the client, and in those moments language matters more than people realize.
Primary practice language
All court filings, pleadings, depositions, and case correspondence default to English. Trilingual fluency means translation is never the source of a miscommunication or a missed deadline.
Hablado por los principales
Para los clientes hispanohablantes, la representación se conduce directamente — sin intérprete, sin pérdida de matiz. Un porcentaje significativo de los casos de construcción de NYC son trabajadores hispanohablantes.
به فارسی صحبت میکنیم
برای جامعهٔ فارسیزبان نیویورک — بهویژه پروژههای ساختوساز و خانوادههای مهاجر ایرانی — وکالت مستقیماً به زبان فارسی انجام میشود. بدون مترجم، بدون از دست رفتن جزئیات.
06 — Why Amparo
There are many plaintiff’s firms in New York. Most have a billboard, a TV spot, a quote, or a slogan. They are not all bad, and some have done excellent work over decades. What they are not is built around two specific positions that, together, do not currently exist anywhere else in the NYC plaintiff’s market:
The institutional credibility of a Federal Circuit clerkship and BigLaw training is rare in the NYC plaintiff’s PI market. We file cleaner papers, develop tighter records, and prepare cases with federal-court discipline. That answers the question every serious referring attorney and sophisticated client asks first: is this case being handled by a serious lawyer?
Jordan’s seat at the firm’s leadership table means Amparo reads construction cases the way the people running the project read them — before filing, not after. GC contracts, OAC meetings, daily logs, safety-budget negotiations, OSHA citation context. That answers the question every injured worker asks: does this firm actually understand my industry?
Free, confidential consultation. English · Español · فارسی. No fee unless we recover.
