Nakissa Sedaghat

Nakissa Sedaghat is a graduate of NYU School of Law, where she obtained a Master of Laws in international human rights, and she was admitted to the New York Bar.  She previously obtained an LL.B. from Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Ontario, Canada, being one of the youngest law graduates there, at the age of 23.  Having been educated in France and Canada, Ms. Sedaghat is fluent and bilingual in French and English. In addition, she speaks Farsi and a measure of German.  

An immigrant herself, Ms. Sedaghat devoted the first decade of her legal career to advocating for asylees, victims of domestic violence, and undocumented immigrants, obtaining legal status for a multitude of clients of all backgrounds. She also had the honor to make successful oral arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on their behalf. 

Thereafter, she took a sabbatical from the legal profession in order to raise a family.  Pivoting to civil litigation practice, Ms. Sedaghat currently heads the motions, discovery, and pleadings department at The Law Offices of Ali Taheripour.  From the outset of her career, her guiding principles have been to achieve justice for her clients and to adhere to the Rule of Law, a philosophy that she applies to this day in her civil law career. Helping people to stand up against entities that try to take advantage of them is the most satisfying aspect of her legal practice.