Areas of Practice

California Workers' Compensation Insurance Defense, Subrogation, General Civil Litigation

E-mail

tahmed@bradfordbarthel.com

Office Phone Number

(818) 654-0411

Office FAX Number

(818) 654-0412

Office Location

18801 Ventura Blvd., Suite 200
Tarzana, California 91356

Profile

Tahmeena Ahmed is a Senior Partner and the Managing Attorney for the Firm's Tarzana office. Ms. Ahmed received her Bachelor of Arts degree as a member of the Honors College, majoring in Psychology, from the University of Illinois, Chicago. After earning an American Jurisprudence Award in Torts, an Academic Achievement Award in Employment Law, and her Juris Doctorate from California Western School of Law in San Diego in 1992, she practiced entertainment, civil, and bankruptcy law . She joined Johnston & Auerbach in 1994 as in-house defense counsel for Fremont Compensation Insurance Company. Focusing on Fremont's "zero tolerance" policy, she spent the next four years aggressively litigating thousands of cases and brought that expertise to Bradford & Barthel, LLP in July of 1998.

Ms. Ahmed became Managing Attorney for the Tarzana office in December of 2000. She was then named Partner in April of 2002. During her tenure as the managing attorney, the Tarzana office has flourished, growing from 2 to 13 attorneys, making this office one of the largest and most experienced in the firm.

With her years of successful litigation experience, Ms Ahmed is routinely selected by clients for her negotiation skills and her creative approaches to resolution. Additionally, she has expanded her practice of workers' compensation defense to include Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) via mediations and arbitrations dealing with Collective Bargaining Agreements and Carve-Out programs. Ms. Ahmed is a Certified Specialist, Workers' Compensation Section, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization. She was approved as a Statewide Arbitrator effective July 26, 2007. She is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California and the Supreme Court of the State of California.

Happily married for 16 years, Ms. Ahmed is the proud mother of two beautiful daughters, Alina and Henna. Being conversant in several languages, she hopes to some day convince the firm to add "global traveler" to her job duties.