Ms. Lakhani is a partner with The Prinz Law Firm. She represents both individual employees and employers, from small businesses to mid-sized multi-state entities, and as a result possesses a comprehensive understanding of a variety of employment issues. Ms. Lakhani is skilled in handling workplace discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims, as well as wage and hour matters. She also has extensive experience representing physicians and negotiating physician employment agreements.

Ms. Lakhani regularly counsels employers on employment policies and best practices, and she represents business clients in set-up and incorporation, contract negotiations, and other commercial matters. In all her work, she is focused on developing creative and cost-effective solutions for her clients.

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Ms. Lakhani is a zealous advocate for her clients. She has obtained a multi-million-dollar jury verdict, and regularly represents her clients in state and federal court, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Illinois Department of Human Rights, the Illinois Department of Labor, the Cook County Commission on Human Rights, and other administrative bodies.

Ms. Lakhani is experienced in a wide variety of matters, including:

• “The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act: How it Protects Labor Trafficking Victims,” a presentation on the intersection of employment and immigration law sponsored by the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago (SABA) (Dec 2022).
• Speaker at the 9th Annual Minority Bar CLE Conference, "Post-COVID: Will We Ever Be the Same?" (Oct 2021).
• Interviewed by Crain’s for “You Don’t Want to Be Known as the Place People Got Sick,” an article on workplace vaccination requirements (Sept 2021).
• Interviewed by Mother Jones for their article, “Inside the Private Facebook Groups Where Anti-Vaxxers Plot to Get Religious Exemptions” (Sept 2021).
• Served as a guest on WBEZ's Reset regarding COVID exemptions (Aug 2021).
• Highlighted in “Workers Will Claim Religious Exemptions on Vaccines. What Then?” a Crain's article on COVID religious exemptions (Aug 2021).
• Appeared on FOX 32 Chicago regarding COVID vaccines (Aug 2021).
• Panelist for "Tech Companies: Equal Opportunity Policies vs. Realities," part of the "Tech and Social Justice Speaker Series" hosted by Illinois Institute of Technology's Office of Community Affairs (May 2021).
• Guest on Anjali Jariwala's podcast Money Checkup regarding contract review for physicians (Apr 2021).
• Panelist for a CLE on "Balancing Privacy and Public Health in a Post-COVID Era," an event sponsored by the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) of Chicago (April 2021).
• "Life after the Curve: Navigating Law Practice in the Era of COVID-19," a forum sponsored by the South Asian Bar Association of Chicago (SABA) (2020).
• "Employment Agreements: IP Rights, Confidentiality, and Non-Competes," workshop for Innovation DuPage (2019).
• "Hiring Employees and Interns: A Discussion on Employment Law," workshop for Innovation DuPage (2019).
• "How to Be an Asset to Your Firm," YLD News, Illinois State Bar Association, available here (2015).