Shivani Sutaria received her Juris Docorate degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law.  While earning her law degree, Ms. Sutaria served as a judicial extern for the Department of Labor Office of Administrative Law Judges and as a law clerk at Rudy, Exelrod & Zieff, the California Office of the Attorney General, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).   Ms. Sutaria received the ABA-BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor and Employment Law, the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Advanced Labor and Employment Law, and the CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Legal Research & Writing.

Prior to law school, Ms. Sutaria worked as the Communications Coordinator and Grants Manager at Equal Rights Advocates.  She also served as an Amnesty International Ralph J. Bunche Human Rights Research Fellow through which she worked at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University California, Hastings College of the Law.  Ms. Sutaria earned a Master of Arts degree from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, San Diego.

Ms. Sutaria primarily practices in the area of employment law.  She is a member of the American Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the state of California.