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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 insider fluency in the industries on the other side of the case.
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 a B.A. in Political Science and Economics at Emory University, an M.S. in Real Estate Development at the NYU Schack Institute, the New York State Department of Financial Services (where he served as Chief Economist of the agency that regulates every insurance carrier doing business in New York), and Simba Property Group, a New York City real estate development and private-equity firm where he is a principal. 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.
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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 — Operator and Regulator Insight
Jordan Sakni’s seat at the firm’s leadership table is what makes Amparo’s PI and construction practice different. His background isn’t legal — it’s operator-side and regulator-side, on both industries that sit across the table from every case we file.
As Chief Economist at the New York State Department of Financial Services, he served inside the agency that regulates every insurance carrier doing business in New York — the same carriers that fund the defense in every personal injury and construction case. He knows how that industry is structured, how it thinks about exposure, and how the financial machinery behind a settlement actually works.
As a New York real estate developer and principal at Simba Property Group, he reads GC contracts the way the GC reads them. He understands the OAC meeting cadence, the schedule pressure that produces dangerous shortcuts, the safety-budget negotiation that decides whether the right harness gets specified. He knows what an OSHA citation 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 preparation. It shows up in settlement posture — because we know what the carrier is actually looking at on its side of the file.
Education
Emory University, B.S. Political Science & Economics
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
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 these cases from inside the two industries on the other side of every file. He served as Chief Economist at the New York State Department of Financial Services — the agency that regulates every insurance carrier funding the defense in personal injury and construction cases. He has also spent the last decade as a New York real estate developer: GC contracts, OAC meetings, daily logs, safety-budget negotiations, OSHA citation context. That answers two questions the rest of the market doesn’t: does this firm understand the industry I work in, and does this firm understand the industry that’s going to write me a check?
Free, confidential consultation. English · Español · فارسی. No fee unless we recover.
