Paris Etemadi Scott has over 17 years of experience as an attorney with a focus on immigration law and international human rights. Before joining Pars Equality Center, Paris worked as an immigration attorney at the Law Offices of Daniel Shanfield, Immigration Defense, PC, where she managed extensive family immigration and complex removal defense cases. Her focus on human rights law expands to the Asian continent where she worked with refugees at Christian Action NGO in Hong Kong, representing refugees in their resettlement claims before the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

Prior to her immigration practice, Paris worked for the law firm of Bullivant Houser Bailey in San Francisco where she litigated insurance and complex commercial matters. Her passion for litigation and advocacy was fueled by a full-time externship at the U.S. District Court of Northern California. She partly attributes her successful law career to her previous professional experience as a Systems Analyst and IT Project Director with multinational companies in Europe and America.

Paris is a graduate of Golden Gate University School of Law (J.D. with Honors) and The University of Maryland (B.S., Honors in Computer Science).

Associations and Memberships include:

• State Bar of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Ninth Circuit of California
• American Immigration Lawyers Association

Paris is fluent in Persian and French. As an immigrant herself, she zealously advocates on behalf of her clients and passionately strives to relieve their plight.

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Jon Greenbaum founded Justice Legal Strategies in 2024 for the purpose of helping the progressive legal community.  He is one of the top civil rights and voting rights lawyers in the country, having worked for over 25 years in key positions at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. Jon has litigated some of the most important and complex civil rights cases in this century. Jon also has two decades of experience as a manager of large legal teams and has collaborated closely with a variety of external partners. Jon brings his skills as a litigator, legal thinker, developer and implementer of programs, and manager of people and processes to help progressive legal organizations achieve greater impact through innovative and carefully considered strategies and the ability to create legal teams that thrive.

Susan Sajadi is a partner in the Litigation and Government Investigations practice of Potomac Law Group. She has broad experience litigating general commercial and complex civil litigation matters in federal and appellate courts and handles all aspects of litigation, from initial investigation through settlement or trial.

Ms. Sajadi has advised an extensive array of clients, from Fortune 100 companies to government whistleblowers and military veterans. In addition to representing clients in a variety of business-related injuries, including fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, products liability, environmental torts and the False Claims Act, she has also litigated extensively on behalf of veterans and civilians injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, including sexual assault victims and those harmed by negligent government contractors.

A graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia School of Law, Ms. Sajadi also serves as a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Babak Yousefzadeh is the President of the IABA National Board of Directors and a partner at Sheppard Mullin, specializing in employment law, and representing employers in a full range of employment related matters, with a focus on litigation and class actions. Babak also specializes in litigation avoidance and regulatory compliance counseling. His experience includes advising and litigation on matters involving all forms of discrimination, harassment, retaliation/whistleblower, and wrongful termination claims; breach of contract disputes; wage and hour and Labor Code violations; independent contractor status; workplace investigations; and well as other statutory and contractual obligations. Babak is experienced with defending employers at trial, arbitration and administrative hearings, and has defended repeated claims against employers successfully, obtaining complete defense jury verdicts, arbitration awards, and administrative rulings. He is also advises clients on employment related policies and agreements, and managing employees in connection with a wide range of employment related issues in the workplace, from hiring, discipline and termination, to leaves of absence, accommodations, and more. While Babak has clients in every sector, he has specialized in work in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Sports/Entertainment, Transportation, and Tech industries.

Babak is also active in the Iranian American community, having served in leadership roles with the Iranian American Bar Association (IABA) on local and national levels for approximately 13 years. He served on the IABA Nor Cal board for approximately 7 years, and on the IABA National Board for almost 8 years – including National President for 5 years over two separate terms, and President Emeritus for 3 years, during which time he led IABA’s efforts in challenging – and resolving the challenge to – the (Muslim) Travel Ban as to each version, including early impact litigation, serving as a key witness in evidentiary hearings before the District Court in Washington, DC, helping prepare an amicus brief in support of Hawaii’s arguments before the Supreme Court, and ultimately resolving the legal challenges to the (initial) Ban through class action litigation.