Our Team
Niki Khoshzamir Kahn, Founder & CEO
Niki is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of PracticePro. She oversees all business and legal operations of the company, including product development, strategic partnerships, and publications. Niki speaks at law schools and conferences nationwide on a variety of skills topics, including professional branding, habits of highly effective associates, networking, advanced interviewing techniques, diversity, and cultural code switching.
Niki is also a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law where she created and teaches a skills course titled The Junior Litigation Associate. She also regularly guest lectures Advanced Legal Writing and Advanced Legal Research courses.
Niki has been recognized as one of the top “40 under 40” professionals by Silicon Valley Business Journal. A litigator for seven years at WilmerHale and Kirkland & Ellis, Niki focused her practice on intellectual property litigation and complex commercial disputes. She successfully represented clients throughout the United States during all phases of litigation, including trial. She also practiced before the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on U.S. trade sanctions compliance and licensing matters.
Niki currently serves on the national advisory board of the Iranian American Bar Association (IABA), and is the former president of the Northern California Chapter, which she founded in 2006 and grew to one of the largest and most active chapters of the organization. She also serves on the Leadership Council of the Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus and as a judge of the Continuing Education of the Bar’s Excellence in Writing competition.
Niki received her law degree from Berkeley Law (2006), and holds an undergraduate degree in Biology, summa cum laude, from Texas Southern University. Prior to her legal career, she was a research assistant at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center. Niki grew up in Tehran, London, and Vienna, immigrated to the United States on her own at 19 to attend college, and currently calls the Bay Area home.
Cassandra Brumback, Editor-in Chief, Practice with Passion Blog
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Rasha Suleiman, Law School Mastery Coordinator
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Desirae Williams, Strategic Partnerships & Practice with Passion Columnist
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Advisors
Professor Robert Berring, Jr., Advisor
Professor, dean, librarian, scholar, and mentor to countless students, Robert Berring, Jr. is a noted and beloved figure in law. He has been a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) for over three decades and served as the law school’s interim dean from January 2003 to June 2004. Professor Berring has taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses, including contracts, advanced legal research, courses covering Chinese law, and seminars about law and cognitive studies. He was awarded UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and he has been named to the Walter Perry Johnson Chair.
Professor Berring is also a pioneer in the profession of law librarianship. He served as the director of the Berkeley Law library for 23 years, and is the former dean of the School of Library and Information Studies. He has authored several groundbreaking texts on legal research – including Finding the Law and Legal Research Survival Manual – and is the creator of the award-winning video series Legal Research for the 21st Century. Professor Berring was named the author of the most influential work on the profession of law librarianship in fifty years (1957 to 2006), by the Academic Law Libraries section of the American Association of Law Libraries.
Professor Berring has an unparalleled dedication to mentoring and inspiring students. From those enrolled in his courses, to those seeking him out for advice by email or in school hallways, he always takes time to listen and guide his students to pursue their dreams. For years, Professor Berring has also written an advice column under the pseudonym “Uncle Zeb.” Claiming to be an “ectoplasmic entity, “Uncle Zeb” has helped thousands of Berkeley Law students. The law school’s cafe was named after Uncle Zeb by popular vote.
Professor Berring received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. and M.L.S. from the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley, California with his wife and enjoys spending time with his two children and granddaughter.
- Alexander Bandza, Jenner & Block
- Iris Chen, Google
- Aparna Dave, Wells Fargo
- Bryan Fair, University of Alabama School of Law
- Felicity Fowler, Haynes and Boone
- Lisa Nguyen, Latham & Watkins
- Bruce Ruzinsky, Jackson Walker
- Jennifer Tung, Uber
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