Justice Sheila Sonenshine
The Honorable Sheila Prell Sonenshine has over 40 years of legal and business experience. She specializes in business and commercial, real estate, probate and trusts, personal injuries, family law, appellate consultation, employment, insurance, and securities and investment disputes. As an attorney, she was the founder and managing partner of a successful law firm with a significant practice. As a businesswoman she founded a federally chartered bank later sold to Wells Fargo and an international mid market investment banking firm bought by H&R Block. As one of the youngest appointees to the California Superior Court and Court of Appeal, she heard thousands of cases in her nearly two decades on the bench. There, Justice Sonenshine resolved hundreds of cases at settlement conferences, including 85% of those she heard under the appellate settlement conference program she inaugurated.