Shahrzad Poormosleh

Supervising Research Attorney, Los Angeles County Superior Court zsimonian@lacourt.org

Zepur Simonian graduated magna cum laude from Southwestern Law School in 2013 and from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2009, with a B.A. in Political Science. After graduating from Southwestern, Ms. Simonian clerked for the Honorable Daniel M. Taubman at the Colorado Court of Appeal, where she drafted appellate opinions concerning civil and criminal cases, and drafted or edited books, articles, or reports related to child welfare. Following her first clerkship, Ms. Simonian then clerked for the Honorable Michael Nash and Michael I. Levanas at the Los Angeles Superior Court, Juvenile Division. In 2018, Ms. Simonian became a Supervising Research Attorney for the Los Angeles Superior Court, where she currently oversees the judicial externship program and the juvenile division of research attorneys and law clerks.

Since 2014, Ms. Simonian has also served as an adjunct professor at Southwestern Law School, where she has taught several courses related to the bar, law school academic skills, and judicial externships. In addition, she has taught a course titled “Succeeding in Law School,” for the Armenian Bar Association and has served as a panelist for several organizations, discussing her path to law school and the skills required to do well in law school and to pass the bar.

John Tehranian

Paul. W. Wildman Chair and Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School jtehranian@swlaw.edu | (213) 738-6823

John Tehranian is an academic, attorney, and author. He currently serves as the Paul W. Wildman Chair and Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, California. He has previously served as a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law, and as a Visiting Professor of Law at Loyola Law School.

Professor Tehranian is also a founding partner of One LLP, a 30-attorney intellectual property and entertainment firm with offices in Beverly Hills and Newport Beach. In his practice, he has litigated numerous high-profile lawsuits, including copyright, trademark and right of publicity disputes involving Madonna, Don Henley, B.B. King, Bettie Page, Jimi Hendrix, Winston Churchill and Perez Hilton, among others. Variety’s Legal Impact Report has recognized Professor Tehranian as one of the world’s top 50 entertainment lawyers, Billboard

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