Sydney Baba is an associate attorney in the San Francisco office of Phillips, Spallas & Angstadt LLP. She represents individuals and entities in civil litigation disputes, largely focusing on landlord-tenant and real property matters.
Ms. Baba earned her Juris Doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law (USF Law), where she was the president of the Student Bar Association, a Teaching Assistant, and a recipient of several honors, including the Law Merit Plus Scholarship, Archibold Law Scholarship, and McAuliffe Honor Society Scholarship, which is awarded to students in the top 10 percent of their class. Ms. Baba also had a case survey published in the Internet and Intellectual Property Law Journal and received the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards (highest grade in the course) in Legal Research & Writing and Legal Issues in Sports.
Before joining our firm, Ms. Baba worked as a legal extern with Dentons and Adibi IP Group. She also worked as a student clinician at the USF Law Internet and Intellectual Property clinic, where she represented local start-up and small business clients.
Prior to law school, Ms. Baba attended the University of San Francisco College of Arts and Sciences, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology, with a concentration in Criminology, Law & Society, and graduating magna cum laude. She was also published in the Writing for a Real World anthology for her writing, “The Criminal Injustice System: How the Criminal Justice System Functions to Maintain the Racial Wealth Gap.”
While Ms. Baba is from Orange County, CA, she has been a San Francisco local for the past seven years and enjoys yoga, surfing, and attending concerts in her free time.