Founder & Managing Partner · Trial Attorney
Aneeta Mishra
Trial-focused preparation across workers’ compensation, immigration, selected employment disputes, and related litigation.
Meet AneetaOffering trusted—and creative—legal representation
Guided by Justice.Driven by Results.
Mishra X Trial Lawyers is an Irvine-based team handling California workers’ compensation, immigration proceedings, employment disputes, and tax matters. We prepare each matter around the evidence, deadlines, and forum that control the next decision.
Prepared for the turning point
Make the next decision with a clear view.
We build the chronology, identify the legal and factual pressure points, protect the deadlines, and prepare for the forum ahead. Clients receive a clear view of the choices—without losing sight of the person, family, or livelihood behind the file.
See the recordFacts, documents, and deadlines assembled into a usable strategy.
Anticipate pressurePreparation for the questions, evidence, and forum that matter.
Protect the clientCandid guidance and vigilant advocacy at every consequential step.
Meet the trial team
Prepared to protect what matters.
Aneeta Mishra and Timothy Chan bring trial discipline to a focused range of matters, including workers’ compensation and immigration, with vigilance for each client’s interests.
Partner · Trial Attorney
Timothy Chan
Careful factual development and disciplined preparation for administrative proceedings, hearings, negotiation, and trial.
Meet TimothyFocused range. Full preparation.
The forum changes. The vigilance does not.
A benefits dispute, immigration proceeding, employment claim, and tax matter call for different rules. Each still depends on the same essentials: a usable record, a protected deadline, and counsel ready for the point of decision.
California Workers’ Compensation
A denied claim or disputed benefits?
Representation in denied claims, medical treatment and evaluation disputes, disability, settlement, and WCAB proceedings.
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Immigration
Facing removal or immigration detention?
Representation in removal proceedings, detention matters, appeals, and related federal litigation, with attention to the correct forum.
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Employment Litigation
Discrimination, retaliation or unpaid wages?
Focused review of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wage, and related employment disputes under California law.
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Tax Services
A tax notice, dispute or filing question?
Attorney-led help with tax disputes and planning, alongside separate bookkeeping and return-preparation support. The written engagement identifies which service you are receiving.
Explore tax servicesA disciplined first move
See the case before choosing the pace.
Urgency is real. So is the cost of moving in the wrong direction. We make the first steps reveal more—not commit the client to less.
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Listen for what is at stake
The immediate legal question matters, but so do the client’s work, status, family, health, and financial realities.
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Make the record usable
We connect chronology, documents, testimony, medical evidence, financial records, and procedure to the issues that must be proved.
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Prepare for pressure
The work anticipates the negotiation, agency review, hearing, or trial where the strategy and evidence will be tested.
Mishra X analysis
The rule is only the beginning.
Practical guidance on deadlines, records, procedures, and choices that can shape a legal matter.
A WCAB Prefiling Order: How to Ask Permission for a New Request
Subject to a WCAB prefiling order? Identify who must grant permission, explain the proposed new request and keep conditional filing separate from approval.
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DV-2027 Registration: Check the Announcement After the Court’s Opening Order Was Stayed
DV-2027 entry dates, selection and visa issuance are separate steps. Check the official announcement and the October 29 stay before relying on an earlier opening deadline.
Read analysisPolitical or Religious Meetings at Work: What to Preserve After the SB 399 Injunction
Required to attend a political or religious work meeting? Preserve the invitation, attendance instructions, requested action and any employment consequence.
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An FTB E-Pay Penalty After Following an Adviser’s Instructions: What the Records Need to Show
Following an adviser’s check instructions does not itself establish reasonable cause. Review the advice, prior FTB notices and the particular payment behind the penalty.
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Request a consultation
Tell us what happened. Ask about the next step.
Tell us the essential facts, the approaching deadline, and what is at stake. An inquiry does not create an attorney-client relationship or preserve a filing deadline.
