Company Profile
The Chandra Law Firm LLC
Company Overview
The Chandra Law Firm LLC is a boutique civil-rights and white-collar-criminal litigation firm with highly credentialed, experienced attorneys who provide passionate, creative, and relentless advocacy for their clients in Ohio and across America.
Chandra Law is featured in U.S. News & World Report's Best Law Firms in America, Best Lawyers in America®, and Ohio SuperLawyers®.
We view ourselves as "karmic facilitators"—bending, as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, the moral arc of the universe toward justice, holding wrongdoers accountable for their bad behavior, and protecting our clients from attack.
We have achieved tremendous results for clients when everything—liberty, property, or reputation—was on the line.
As a former federal prosecutor, law director for a major American city, and large-firm litigator in both Los Angeles and Cleveland, founding and managing partner Subodh Chandra draws on experiences that few lawyers have had in combination. And Chandra's distinguished colleagues—who include veterans of large-firm practice and several former federal law clerks—drive the firm's dynamic strategies to get results.
Practice areas include
• civil-rights (e.g., employment discrimination and retaliation; First Amendment, voting rights, and police and other governmental misconduct),
• whistleblower actions including the federal False Claims Act,
• white-collar criminal defense (such as healthcare fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, mortgage fraud, telecommunications fraud, and public corruption),
•business disputes including contract claims and insurance-coverage matters, in both federal and state courts.
•media and entertainment law, including defamation (slander and libel), Freedom of Information Act, the Ohio Public Records Act, the Open Meetings Act, sunshine laws, and more.
The firm also performs internal investigations (including for Fortune 200 companies).
Often, the dilemmas confronting Chandra Law's clients are high profile and have a crisis-communications and public-policy dimension that requires attorneys who understand how to navigate a challenging media environment, protect reputations under public scrutiny, and challenge reputations that richly deserve to be challenged.
At Chandra Law, your case is our cause.®
Company History
Founded in 2005 by Subodh Chandra, a former federal prosecutor and Cleveland law director, Chandra Law has grown to a boutique of eight lawyers who handle some of the most important, high-profile public-interest matters in Ohio and the country.
These include
• the civil-rights suit (with co-counsel) against Cleveland police arising from the 2014 slaying of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, resulting in a record $6,000,000 settlement,
• the retaliation suit against Case Western Reserve University law-school dean, and
• numerous groundbreaking First Amendment matters.