Shayda Zaerpoor Le

Practice Areas

Shayda Le advises employers, management, and higher education institutions on a wide range of employment issues and litigation, including trade secrets, noncompetition agreements, wrongful termination, discrimination, policy review, workplace investigations, Title IX, and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Shayda counsels clients with the aim of providing efficient and proactive solutions, and carries that approach into litigating claims to resolution. She has successfully represented clients before Circuit and District Courts and through all stages of employment litigation, including depositions, oral argument, mediation, and trial. She uses her advocacy skills to argue on behalf of clients before judges and administrative agencies. In addition, she is experienced in workplace investigations and completed a certificate through the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI) Training Institute. Shayda regularly provides trainings on compliance and changing legislation. She recognizes that legal advice should be tailored to work hand-in-hand with the business goals and needs of each individual employer, and should suit their particular workplace. As a result, she strives to get to know her clients and their businesses.

Career

Shayda earned her B.S. at Portland State University, and her J.D. at Boston University School of Law. She is licensed to practice in Oregon, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Washington, and Massachusetts.

Professional Memberships

Shayda is also actively engaged with the broader community. She serves on the Board of Directors and as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Chair for the American Bar Foundation, as well as a Board Member and Philanthropy Committee Member for the YMCA of Columbia-Willamette. She sat on the American Bar Association Board of Governors, is a Past President of the Multnomah Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section, and was also the Board’s Delegate to the American Bar Association. She served as an adjunct professor for graduate classes at Lewis and Clark College. As part of her commitment to justice and equity, Shayda was a Co-Chair of the Associates Committee for the Campaign for Equal Justice, which is the fundraising arm for Legal Aid Services of Oregon. She is a proud member of the Andisheh Center for Iranian cultural heritage and is a Past-President of its Board of Directors. Shayda has been listed by Oregon Super Lawyers magazine since 2014 and was awarded by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division as an On the Rise—Top 40 Young Lawyer in 2017.

American Bar Foundation: Board of Directors (2023-present); Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee: Chair (2024-present), Member (2023-present); Officer Nominations Committee Member (2024-present); Institutional Relations Committee Member (2023-present); Development Committee Member (2023-present); Fellow (2018-present)

American Bar Association Standing Committee on Membership: Member (2023-present)

American Bar Association Sustainable Business Model Taskforce: Member (2023-2024)

American Bar Association Board of Governors: Governor (2020-2023); Governance Committee: Chair (2022-2023), Member (2021-2022); Liaison to the Young Lawyers Division (2020-2023); Liaison to the Standing Committee on Continuing Legal Education (2020-2023); Liaison to the Center for Innovation (2021-2023); Liaison to the Standing Committee on Gun Violence (2020-2021)

American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division: Welcome Home Taskforce, Member (2023-present); Executive Committee Member (2019-2023); Director of Marketing & Communications (2018-2019); Vice Director of Membership & Marketing (2017-2018); District Representative, Oregon and Washington (2016-2018); Scholar (2016-2017); Bankruptcy Committee, Member (2016-2017); Labor and Employment Committee, Vice Chair (2016-2017); Member Services Project Team, Member (2016-2017); Oregon Delegate (2016-2023); Member (2014-2023)

American Bar Association Legal Opportunity Scholarship Fundraising Committee: Member (2018-2020)

American Bar Association: Member (2014-present)

University Risk Management & Insurance Association (URMIA): Affiliate Member (2021-present)

Multnomah Bar Association: Member (2020-present); Professionalism Award Screening Subcommittee (2022)

Multnomah Bar Association Young Lawyers Section: Board of Directors, Immediate Past President (2019-2020); President (2018-2019); President-Elect (2017-2018); Board of Directors, Secretary (2016-2017); Board of Directors, Board Member (2015-2020); Board of Directors Delegate to the ABA Young Lawyers Division (2016-2020); Entrepreneur Committee, Chair (2014-2015); Membership Committee, Member (2013-2015); Member (2013-2020)

Campaign for Equal Justice: Advisory Committee (2019-present); Associates Committee, Co-Chair (2016-2018), Member (2013-2018)

Northwest Association of Title IX Administrators: Member (2015-present)

Oregon Women Lawyers: Member (2014-present)

Women in Insurance and Financial Services: Programs Committee (2015-2017); Member (2015-2019)

OWLS Rainmaking Mentoring Program: Member (2014)

The City Club of Portland: Member (2014)

Publications

PHRMA "The Modern Workplace Symposium: Pay Transparency Trends and Best Practices," Presenter (11/13/24)

Barran Liebman Annual Seminar: “Alpine Touring: The Uphill Climb Through the EEOC’s New Guidance & Its Impact on Workplace Investigations,” Presenter (9/26/24)