Sheku Sheikholeslami

As assistant general counsel, Sheku Sheikholeslami works closely with Dechert’s general counsel and the firm’s attorneys and personnel to create and implement risk management and compliance procedures, resolve conflicts of interest, advise on issues involving firm policies and internal controls, handle professional responsibility matters, and draft and negotiate commercial contracts and policies.

Ms. Sheikholeslami was previously an associate in the white collar, securities, and complex commercial litigation group. She also has substantial experience in pro bono work, including the representation of plaintiffs in prisoner civil rights actions and of petitioners in habeas corpus proceedings in federal courts.

Ms. Sheikholeslami joined Dechert after a two-year clerkship for the Honorable James T. Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to law school, she provided legal assistance to asylum seekers and refugees through her work at Human Rights First in New York and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society in Vienna, Austria.