Ms. Narayan is the chief litigator and managing owner of The Narayan Law Firm, one of the largest South Asian American owned law firms in the country. She is the lead counsel on the Firm's Federal, Civil Rights and Employment practice areas and focuses primarily on Litigation, Employment and Complex Litigation matters.
In 2009, 2010 and 2011, Ms. Narayan was named as one of the top 5% of lawyers in Northern California by Super Lawyers magazine.
She also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at UCSF Hastings College of Law.
Ms. Narayan has been extremely successful in the San Francisco Bay Area community as both a lawyer and as a businesswoman. She has founded and successfully manages a seven attorney, multimillion dollar business enterprise for the last 20 years. She is also a Charter member of the Indian American Chamber of Commerce. She has represented numerous Fortune 500 Business Clients including Taco Bell, Safeway, ABM Industries and Pacific Gas and Electric Company.
Prior to founding and managing her own firm, Ms. Narayan was employed in the San Francisco Financial District offices of a 500 attorney New York based law firm. She also served as a law clerk to the General Counsel for the Honeywell Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Ms. Narayan has handled over twenty five (25) trials, with nineteen (19) matters involving jury trials. She has tried cases to jury verdict in the Federal Court Northern District; as well as State Courts in San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin and Santa Clara County. She has taken or defended hundreds of depositions and appeared on five occasions before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and/or California State Court of Appeal.
Ms. Narayan has represented the Federal Government for many years in Business Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, as well as in Bankruptcy Court. She currently represents the FDIC. She represented the State of California at trial to a defense jury verdict in an employment case. She has successfully represented the County of Alameda for the last sixteen (16) years in numerous cases both in Federal and State Court involving 42 USC §1983 Civil Rights, Employment, Business Torts, Contractual Disputes and Personal Injury. She recently represented Contra Costa County and the Contra Costa Sheriff in Federal Court in a case involving employment liability and civil rights.
Ms. Narayan's reputation and experience have led her firm to be selected as panel counsel for various Fortune 500 insurance companies including:
- Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
- Golden Eagle Insurance
- Allstate Insurance Companies
- Safeco Insurance Companies
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Ms. Narayan regularly has handled complex high value cases.
These matters include:
Ms. Narayan received her education degrees as follows:
- BA in Economics, The University of California at Berkeley, 1983.
- JD degree from The University of San Francisco School of Law, 1987.
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Ms. Narayan has maintained a National Reputation as a leader in the Employment and Civil Rights fields. She has appeared as an expert in these fields on Court TV on several occasions on cases involving high profile nationally known matters.
Ms. Narayan is active in the legal, minority and local communities. She provides her services as Judge Pro
Tem and Court approved arbitrator in San Francisco and Santa Clara County Superior Courts. She serves as an Early Neutral Evaluator for the Federal Court, Northern District. She serves
on the Board of the San Mateo County Bar Association and on the Board of the South Asian Bar Association Foundation.
She currently provides legal counsel to the Fiji American National Association. She also serves as Member
of the California Woman Lawyers, the Asian American Bar Association,
the Alameda County Bar Association, the San Francisco Bar Association, the Santa Clara Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.
Her positions have included:
- Board Member, San Mateo County Bar Association
- Chair of the Litigation Section of the Barristers of the Bar Association of San Francisco;
- Officer of the Eastern Alameda County Bar Association;
- Board Member of the Women Lawyers of Alameda County; and
- Board Member of the South Asian Bar Association Foundation.
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