Mukesh Advani
Owner
Mukesh Advani is a civil litigation and corporate attorney with more than 35 years of experience. He has litigated several 100 cases in both Federal and State trial and appellate courts, including the California Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. Mr. Advani and The Advani Law Firm provides legal services in a wide range of civil litigation matters, including insurance law, employment law, commercial litigation, business litigation, real estate litigation, and appellate law. On the corporate side, his firm provides services to small businesses and technology start-ups and emerging growth companies in general corporate law matters, equity financing, stock option plans, employment law matters, commercial contracts, intellectual property licensing agreements, joint venture agreements, and outsourcing agreements. Mr. Advani also serves as outside general counsel for emerging growth companies. Mr. Advani has served in many leadership positions. He is the founder and past President of the original South Asian Bar Association (SABA) in San Francisco, which was the inspiration for the formation of dozens of SABA chapters across North America with more than 10,000 members. Mr. Advani has also served as a member of the California Committee of Bar Examiners, the Ethnic Minority Relations Committee of the State Bar of California, and the executive committee of the International Law Section of the State Bar of California. He started the award-winning free legal clinics at the India Community Center in Milpitas and Columbia Neighborhood Center in Sunnyvale, which are open to the general public. Mr. Advani was involved in starting the mentorship program of SABA in the early years of the organization. He was also the force behind the start of SABA’s hate crime hotline in 1997, and served as Vice President and Chair National Convention of SABA, North America in 2013. Mr. Advani is a former President and Board Member of the Employment Law Section of the Contra Costa County Bar Association. He also served as Vice-Chair of the Diversity Committee of the Contra Costa County Bar Association. Mr. Advani was rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell after only five years of practice. He has been selected to the 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 Northern California Super Lawyers.
