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Anjuma Goswami is an experienced labor and employment litigator and corporate legal counsel. She has acquired an extensive amount of practical experience in the field of labor and employment law specifically in the areas of civil rights and liberty violations, discrimination (race, age, gender, national origin and pregnancy), hostile work environment, retaliation, and adverse employment actions pursuant to Title VII, Section 1981, ADA, FMLA, and state law employment related claims.

Ms. Goswami provides her experience to a broad array of clients including individual plaintiffs and small to mid-size businesses. As corporate counsel, Ms. Goswami utilizes her experience as a litigator prosecuting and defending cases to implement strategies and solutions to enhance employment goals, create comprehensive company policies and procedures to prevent potential law suits, develop employment contracts, vendor agreements, non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, severance agreements, covenants not to compete, and implementing business strategies to enhance overseas business and contractual relationships.

Ms. Goswami has been elected Board of Director in 2008 for the Bar Association for the District of Columbia Young Lawyers Section.

Ms. Goswami has several published opinions including federal employment labor law decisions and precedent District of Columbia workers’ compensation law. Ms. Goswami has been a guest legal expert on local Prince George’s County news discussing the impact and implications of jury verdicts. She has established a reputation as both- a zealous plaintiff and defense counsel. She is able to effectuate the goals of her clients by being intimately aware on how to win a case on either side.

Ms. Goswami is originally from Loudoun County, Virginia. She received her B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1998. In 2002, she received her law degree from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. While in law school, Ms. Goswami was selected as an Equal Justice Fellow to work as a student attorney at the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office in Montgomery County, Maryland. Ms. Goswami served as a student attorney in the Clinical Program litigating cases on behalf of underprivileged Washington D.C. residents on employment and housing rights violations. Ms. Goswami also interned at the Department of Justice analyzing legislative policy, at Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolf assisting clients in a variety of pro-bono matters, and at Klimaski & Grill, P.C. litigating employment discrimination and civil rights violations. Ms. Goswami is a former White House Intern under the Clinton administration and the founder and co-chair of the White House Intern Committee on Child Advocacy.

Prior to becoming Of Counsel to the Patrick Henry LLP, Ms. Goswami was an associate at Charlson Bredehoft & Cohen, P.C. litigating cases on behalf of plaintiffs. Additionally, Ms. Goswami was an associate at Jordan Coyne & Savits, LLP litigating general and insurance civil defense matters serving as lead counsel for her clients. Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Goswami served as the judicial law clerk to the Honorable Leonard Braman, the Honorable Timothy Murphy, the Honorable Stephen Eilperin, and the Honorable Peter Wolf at the Superior Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Goswami is admitted to practice in Virginia and Washington, D.C.