Nura Heydari is an associate attorney in our San Francisco office, where she represents individuals and entities in a wide range of legal matters, including real property disputes, personal injury, and landlord‐tenant issues.
Prior to joining Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt, LLP, Ms. Heydari worked in insurance defense where she defended companies and individuals sued in general litigation matters involving habitability, personal injury and premises liability, and a range of other matters. Her clients included retailers, property owners, and entrepreneurs in a wide variety of industries.
While in law school, Ms. Heydari interned at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, working specifically within the Housing Program team, where she assisted in providing free legal advice and representation to low‐income individuals facing eviction lawsuits and housing discrimination. In particular, she assisted with habitability issues, reasonable accommodation requests for individuals with disabilities, enforcing local tenant ordinances and the COVID‐19 eviction moratoriums, and Section 8 housing and voucher problems. She previously worked at the Marin County and Contra Costa Public Defender’s offices assisting indigent clients on the misdemeanor calendar by providing effective, efficient and empathetic legal advice.
Ms. Heydari was a member of the Santa Clara University School of Law International Human Rights Clinic where she worked on two long‐standing projects. She assisted in drafting an amicus curiae brief that was submitted before the Inter‐American Court of Human Rights regarding Honduras’s continued violations against transgender individuals. The second project was an initiative for the adoption of an international violence against women treaty that involved contacting legal scholars, human rights attorneys, and United Nations Ambassadors to gain international support.