About Saba Ali
Saba Ali Basria graduated from the University of California, Irvine with her undergraduate degree in 2008 and earned her J.D. from UC Irvine School of Law in 2015. She attended law school from 2012 to 2015, building a grounding in legal research and advocacy during her studies. Those years set the stage for a career that has moved between public interest work, courtroom practice, and legal education.
She began her post-law school path as a Public Service Fellow at the ACLU in 2015. The following year she served as a judicial law clerk for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. That clerkship exposed her to federal procedure and the daily demands of managing complex dockets. In 2016 she also provided pro bono legal services through the Casa Cornelia Law Center, adding direct client work to her experience.
In 2018 she took a position as an associate at the Law Office of Higbee & Associates. There she moved from court support roles into practice, handling matters that required case preparation and legal research. In 2021 she joined Golden Gate University School of Law as an adjunct professor of law, teaching and mentoring students while keeping a foot in practice. In 2022 she began work as a legal research lawyer at the Alameda County Superior Court, a role that draws on her years of drafting, analysis, and courtroom familiarity.
Over the course of a decade she has worked across settings that emphasize different parts of the legal process. Her experience includes public interest advocacy, judicial support, and law firm practice. Those roles have given her repeated exposure to legal writing, brief preparation, and the procedural mechanics of trial and appellate work. She has moved fluidly between roles that required client advocacy and those that centered on careful, court-oriented research.
She currently serves as a legal research lawyer at the Alameda County Superior Court and teaches as an adjunct at Golden Gate University School of Law. Her current work centers on legal research, drafting, and instruction.
