THE MASOOM LAW OFFICE

Elnaz Masoom is the principal attorney at The Masoom Law Office. After working in some of the Bay Area's premier law firms, Ms. Masoom decided to open her own practice to offer her own brand of legal services with integrity—where all clients are important and receive personalized attention to their legal matter in a comfortable, confidential setting.

Ms. Masoom has an extensive background in both employment and personal injury litigation as well as in various business and transactional matters. As a business attorney, she has helped small businesses with transactional inquiries including forming business entities, and drafting and negotiating business contracts, while also assisting in the litigation of numerous contractual and tortuous disputes.

As a plaintiff's attorney, Ms. Masoom has been involved in and assisted in a number of major cases including a product liability lawsuit where a young woman's arm was burnt and amputated as a result of a defect in a press machine; a wrongful death case where a woman was killed in a motorcycle accident caused by an inattentive driver; and a disability discrimination case  where plaintiff was terminated from the position he had held for 22 years because he had Parkinson's disease, all resulting in settlements of $1,000,000 or more. She has also assisted in representing clients in slip and fall matters, auto accidents and construction accidents.  

Ms. Masoom is admitted to practice law in all courts of the State of California and the District Court for the Northern District of California. She is a committee member of San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and also a member of  San Francisco Bar Association,  Santa Clara County Bar Association, American Association for Justice and the Consumer Attorneys of California. 

Ms. Masoom received her J.D. from Golden Gate University School of Law with a certificate of specialization in litigation. She was a member of the GGU trial team and competed in the American Association for Justice's regional Mock Trial Competition.

During law school, Ms. Masoom was one of the four Bay Area law students selected for the SFTLA's Diversity Fellowship program where she participated in a summer-long mentoring program working with plaintiff's attorneys in San Francisco. She received the Witkin Award for Academic Excellence and served as a Teaching Assistant to Professor Mark Yates.

Ms. Masoom earned her undergraduate degree at San Jose State University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science Magna Cum Laude. She also received seven merit based and academic scholarships in college and published an article in the Spartan Daily concerning the rights of minority students.

Ms. Masoom is fluent in Persian (Farsi) and conversational Turkish. She enjoys snowboarding, reading novels, and has a passion for traveling the world.