Attorney Sherry Bahrambeygui and her husband, Patrick Hosey, are partners in life and business. In their firm, Hosey & Bahrambeygui, the 38-year-old Bahrambeygui specializes in health care, employment, business and personal injury law. Her particular focus is on representing those who have been adversely affected by the managed care system.

“I am contacted daily by doctors, health care providers and patients who are running up against managed care and feeling restricted,” she says. “I help them get through the hoops and red tape.”

Bahrambeygui does everything for her clients, from giving advice to filing lawsuits on their behalf. In 1999, she was interviewed by ABC’s “20/20” program for a case she represented involving a doctor fired in retaliation for advocating what he felt was appropriate patient care.

In employment law, Bahrambeygui represents disabled clients who need accommodations in their jobs so they can remain productive in the workforce, and helps them to secure health care coverage both during employment and upon leaving the employer. She also has taken on other discrimination cases involving race or gender. “But health care and discrimination are often the two (specialties) that overlap,” she says.

Bahrambeygui is a member of several legal associations and on the boards of the Consumer Attorneys of San Diego, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights and the La Jolla Country Day School Alumni Association, for which she also serves as vice president. She is a national lecturer for law and medical associations and a volunteer arbitrator for fee disputes through the San Diego County Bar Association.

She and Hosey have been married five years, had their own firm for three years, and are the parents of 3-year-old twin boys, Liam and Ryan.

— Lora Watters