AARON MINNIS

PARTNER

Aaron Minnis advises executives, professionals, attorneys, and employees through complex and sensitive work issues.

Aaron advises and represents exclusively employees in matters involving retaliation, wrongful termination, discrimination, and harassment. He has experience handling both jury trials and bench trials in employment cases as well as in other practice areas (business, probate, landlord/tenant), including representing and defending an employee in a harassment/defamation jury trial; representing an employee in a jury trial involving unpaid compensation; representing three health care executives against their employer in a wrongful termination jury trial; representing a petitioner in an “equitable adoption” trial; and representing a San Francisco tenant in a wrongful eviction jury trial. Aaron is an Arbitrator for the attorney/client fee dispute program of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and a Judge Pro Tem for the San Francisco Superior Court. He served on the Executive Committee for the Solo and Small firm section of the San Francisco Bar Association. Since 1999, he has volunteered as a Supervising Attorney with Legal Aid at Work. He is a member of several legal organizations, including SFTLA, CELA, BALIF and the Employment Section of the San Francisco Bar Association. He also is a member of ProVisors, a community of professionals who serve their clients as trusted advisors and share the highest standards of integrity, performance, and accountability.

Previously Aaron was a partner with Mattingly & Minnis LLP, a general civil litigation practice. Aaron graduated cum laude from Santa Clara University, where he studied history and political science. He participated in the Santa Clara Rowing team for four years. Aaron attended law school in Washington D.C. at American University, Washington College of Law, where he obtained his law degree. Since 2014, Aaron has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer in Employment Litigation (Plaintiff) each year. Since 2011, he has been selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star. He has a “10 Superb” AVVO rating. Additionally, in 2021, 2022, & 2023, Aaron was selected as one of the Top 100 Northern California Lawyers by Super Lawyers, along with partner Sonya Smallets. This is a high achievement as it is rare for two attorneys from the same firm to be selected for this Top 100 list.