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 Cyrus Mehri is a founding partner of the law firm Mehri & Skalet, PLLC. In 2001, he was named by Regardie's Power magazine as one of "Washington's Ten Most Feared Lawyers." Mehri served as Class Counsel in the two largest race discrimination class actions in history. Roberts v. Texaco Inc. settled in 1997 for $176 million. Ingram v. The Coca-Cola Company, settled in 2001 for $192.5 million. Both settlements include historic programmatic relief, featuring independent Task Forces with sweeping powers to reform key human resources practices such as pay, promotions and evaluations. For his work on the Texaco case, in 1997 Mehri was named a finalist for "Trial Lawyer of the Year" by Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, and in 2001 he was a finalist again as co-lead counsel in the Coca-Cola case... Mehri graduated magna cum laude from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York in 1983 and received the "Most Outstanding Young Alumnus" award from Hartwick in 1998. In 2002, Mehri gave the keynote address at the College's 30th Anniversary of the Political Science Department. After graduating from college, he was a consumer advocate at Public Citizen in Washington, D.C., where he worked to reauthorize the federal Superfund bill and to reduce telephone charges for residential customers. Mehri graduated from Cornell Law School in 1988, where he served as Articles Editor for the Cornell International Law Journal. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable John T. Nixon, U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Tennessee. From 1989 to 1997, Mehri was an associate at Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, PLLC, a preeminent class action firm in Washington, D.C. A first generation Iranian-American, Mehri lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and their two children >>> See here Who is your Iranian of the day? Email your image
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