Niki Khoshzamir Moore is a senior associate in the firm's Litigation/Controversy Department, and a member of the Business Trial Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2007.
Practice
Ms. Moore's practice is primarily focused on complex commercial litigation, intellectual property disputes, and economic sanctions matters. She has successfully represented corporations, financial institutions and individuals in state, federal district and appellate courts throughout the United States, and in all phases of litigation including trial. She also advises and represents clients before the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control on US trade sanctions. Her work has included compliance, licensing, voluntary disclosures and enforcement matters arising under the economic sanctions regulations governing Iran.
Ms. Moore was selected by the firm as a Pickering Fellow in 2011, and completed a six-month internship with the Asian Law Caucus (ALC), a San Francisco-based civil rights organization. Her work at ALC focused on post-9/11 civil rights issues in the national security context.
Prior to beginning her legal career, Ms. Moore was a senior research assistant with the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, where she conducted cancer research and gene mutation analysis. Previously, she served as a research technician in the Human Genome Sequencing Center and the Department of Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine.
Professional Activities
Ms. Moore is the founder of the Northern California Chapter of the Iranian American Bar Association and has served on its board since 2007. Over the years, she has also contributed to the national IABA in different capacities and currently serves on the national advisory board.
Ms. Moore is an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, where she teaches a course titled "The Junior Attorney: Expectations, Responsibilities and Realities." She also volunteers as a Citizen Teacher in Citizen Schools' mock trial program. Citizen Schools is a national non-profit organization dedicated to providing after-school education for middle-school children.
Honors and Awards
- Named a 2011 "40 Under 40 Rising Star" by The Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal
- Received the Minority Bar Coalition's Unity Award for her work with IABA and other minority bar associations in 2010
- Listed as a "Rising Star" by the Minority Bar Coalition in 2009