Sonya Z. Mehta
Partner
Sonya Z. Mehta is a trial attorney and partner with Siegel, Yee, Brunner & Mehta. She represents individual employees, as well as public and private sector labor unions as a dedicated advocate for workers’ and civil rights. Ms. Mehta has won high value verdicts, including over $2 million in a 2022 equal pay case; many favorable rulings; and significant settlements in whistleblower, discrimination, and other civil rights cases. Ms. Mehta graduated from the University of California at Berkeley and received her law degree from the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. Before practicing law, she was the Co-Executive Director of community and workers’ organization Young Workers United (YWU) in San Francisco. At YWU, Ms. Mehta won the first paid sick leave law in the country through a 2006 San Francisco ballot initiative. Ms. Mehta is serving her second term as President of Women Lawyers of Alameda County. She was also a two-time Co-Chair of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) Public Employees Committee.
