Meet Kaveh Newmen of Newmen Law, P.C.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kaveh Newmen.

Hi Kaveh, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I’m a first-generation Iranian-American. My family came to the U.S. before I was born, I grew up in Southern California, and I’m fluent in Farsi. That bicultural piece has shaped pretty much everything about how I think about law, business, and community.

I went to UC Irvine, studied Criminology, Law, and Society, graduated cum laude, and was a scholar-athlete while I was there. From there I headed down to the University of San Diego for law school, where I served on the boards of the Criminal Law Society and the Immigration Law Society. I spent a stretch studying abroad in Prague, which gave me an early taste for cross-border work, and I clerked at the San Diego County Public Defender’s Office. That’s the part of law school that actually changed me. Standing next to people on the worst day of their lives, in a system that doesn’t always work for them, is where criminal defense stopped being academic and became something I genuinely cared about.

After law school I joined a civil litigation firm called Edlin Gallagher Huie + Blum, doing business disputes, cryptocurrency, cannabis, and transportation work. It was a great place to learn how to actually try a case. I got admitted to the California Bar in 2021 and founded Newmen Law not too long after that. Looking back, starting a firm that early was probably either brave or stupid depending on the week, but it forced me to learn the business of law about as fast as the practice of it.

The firm now runs as two brands. Newmen Law handles business and corporate work, IP and trademarks, and regulatory compliance, and over the last couple of years we’ve built a real specialty in the peptide and biotech space. We advise labs, manufacturers, and telehealth platforms working through a regulatory environment that changes month to month. Not Guilty Law Group is our criminal defense brand, where we’ve had a strong run handling both immigration and criminal matters throughout so-cal.

I’ve also gotten pretty deep into the intersection of law and technology. I built and patented a criminal law AI tool called eMiranda a few years ago, and right now I’m building out an AI infrastructure for the firm itself.

Outside the practice, I sit on the board of IABA-OC, our local Iranian-American Bar Association chapter, and I’m building a nonprofit focused on Iranian-American economic development. I train Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is honestly how I keep my head straight. And I’ve got a family at home that does a much better job of keeping me grounded than any of the rest of it.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
No road is smooth when you are the one traveling it for the first time.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your business?
Newmen Law is a boutique firm based in Santa Ana, California. We’re small by design. The whole point of building it was to do high-quality, hands-on work without the layers and inefficiency that come with bigger shops.

We run as two brands under one practice. Newmen Law is our business side. That’s where we handle corporate formation and transactions, contracts, IP and trademarks, general counsel work, and regulatory compliance. Over the last couple of years we’ve built a real specialty advising clients in the peptide and biotech industry, which is one of the more interesting and unsettled regulatory spaces in the country right now. We work with labs, manufacturers, telehealth platforms, and B2B providers navigating FDA, DEA, and state-level rules that genuinely change quarter to quarter. Not Guilty Law Group is our criminal defense brand, where we represent people facing white collar charges, firearm offenses, DUI, and serious felonies.

Any big plans?
I plan to grow the firm, hire more staff, and make a positive impact in my community and on my family.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.newmenlaw.com
• Instagram: @kavehesq
• Twitter: @attorneykaveh