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Ali Ari Aalaei

Founder & Managing Attorney · Ari Law, P.C. · Jury Trial Attorney

Ali is, first and foremost, a jury trial attorney. He has personally stood before juries in San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Los Angeles County Superior Courts, and in federal court — serving as lead trial counsel on every matter he has tried. Admitted to the California Bar in January 2008, Ali has now practiced for 18 years, and the verdicts on this page reflect that record in the courtroom.

Ali was born in Boston to parents who immigrated from two different continents — Asia and Europe — and met as students in Boston in the late 1970s. He was raised in Boston and later in Texas before coming to the Bay Area as a young attorney. At Suffolk University Law School he was selected to the Law Review, and during law school he gained experience at the City of Boston Law Department and at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr LLP — one of the most prestigious litigation firms in the country — where he was first immersed in high-stakes legal practice. He also served on Capitol Hill with the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, an experience that broadened his understanding of law, policy, and institutional advocacy. It was during these formative years that Ali developed the interest in corporate law and courtroom litigation that has defined his practice ever since.

After law school, Ali spent a year at a litigation firm in Palo Alto before founding Ari Law, P.C. in December 2008 in San Francisco's Financial District. The firm's earliest clients were the software companies and small businesses that defined that community — and the legal problems they brought, from contracts and IP to partnership disputes and employment matters, established the foundation of the practice.

Ali built the firm from the courthouse up. In the years before e-filing, he was present at the civil counters of the San Francisco Superior Court, filing papers, learning the clerks, understanding how cases moved through the system at every level. That firsthand knowledge of California's courts — accumulated across 18 years of continuous practice — is not something that can be acquired any other way.

Away from the office, Ali is a husband and father of two. He has served as a volunteer coach in the American Youth Soccer Organization (AYSO) and has been an active member of the Portola Valley community — serving on the Town's Diversity & Equity Committee and now transitioning to the Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee. A former collegiate lacrosse player, Ali brings that same competitive discipline and team-oriented mindset to the practice of law.

His background — spanning continents, Boston, Texas, and the Bay Area — gives him a natural ease connecting with people from every walk of life, which is no small advantage when your case is decided by twelve strangers in a jury box. What distinguishes Ali in the courtroom is not just trial preparation or legal strategy — it is a rare ability to connect: with jurors, with witnesses, with the human story at the center of every dispute. That skill cannot be learned. It is built from a life lived across many places, cultures, and communities.

But underneath all of it — the background, the instincts, the courtroom presence — is something simpler and harder to fake: discipline. The willingness to out-prepare and out-work, every single time. That is what ties everything together. And that is what wins cases. If you have a legal matter that demands that level of commitment, Ali would like to hear from you.

Ali holds professional civility and ethical conduct as values inseparable from effective advocacy. He has maintained candor with tribunals, respect for opposing counsel, and adherence to the highest standards of professional responsibility throughout his career — not because it is required, but because he believes it is the only way to practice law with integrity. In his experience, those values and winning are not in conflict. They are the same thing.