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Atty. Subodh Chandra, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, USA


Summary

Subodh (rhymes with ?abode?) Chandra (rhymes with ?tundra?) is the founding and managing partner of The Chandra Law Firm LLC. Chandra?s practice focuses on high-profile civil and appellate litigation, including civil-rights, employment, and business litigation; and on internal investigations and white-collar-criminal law, in both federal and state courts. The litigation that Chandra handles often has a crisis-communications, public-policy dimension. Before founding the firm, Chandra served as Director of Law of the City of Cleveland, a billion-dollar corporation. Chandra led the work of an 82-lawyer department with both criminal and civil divisions. He also sometimes served as the City?s acting mayor. As Cleveland?s general counsel, Chandra handled legal work in-house and slashed by nearly 90% spending on outside counsel, saving millions; moved vigorously through in-house investigations to clean up internal corruption; restored the department?s reputation; and attracted top performers who helped make it Ohio?s most diverse law firm.Previously, as a federal prosecutor, Chandra successfully prosecuted health-care fraud and corruption?winning special recognition from FBI director Robert Mueller.Before that, Chandra served as a litigator in large firms in both Cleveland and Los Angeles, and served as special presidential counsel at the American Bar Association.Chandra is a graduate of the Yale Law School, where he was executive editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He also graduated with honors and distinction from Stanford University, which awarded him the John Gardner Fellowship to work with Ohio Governor Dick Celeste.Chandra has served as Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, teaching appellate practice and legal ethics. View More ?

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Fees

  • Credit Cards Accepted
  • Contingent Fees
    Many civil-rights, discrimination, sexual-harassment, whistleblower, and retaliation matters are subject to agreements in which we recover fees upon success. White-collar-criminal-defense matters are based on hourly or structured flat-fee agreements.
  • Education

    Yale Law School
    J.D. (1994) | Law
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    Stanford University
    B.A. (1989) | Political Science and Sociology
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    Honors: Graduated with honors, and distinction in two departments; elected to Phi Beta Kappa, junior year.
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    Experience

    25 years of experience

    Address

    The Chandra Law Firm LLC
    The Chandra Law Building
    1265 W. 6th Street, Suite 400
    Cleveland, OH 44113
    Telephone: (216) 578-1700