Nigar Aftab Shaikh

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Nigar Aftab Shaikh: Attorney with Filippatos PLLC

Biography

Before joining Filippatos PLLC, Nigar worked at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as Pro Bono Attorney focused on managing and growing the global firm’s award-winning pro bono litigation practice in New York and California. Before Cleary, she litigated plaintiffs’ employment, sex abuse, antitrust, and consumer protection claims at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP.

Prior to LCHB, she worked on affirmative litigation and policy advocacy to advance gun safety as Counsel at Everytown Law. Nigar began her career litigating civil and criminal matters across the US at the trial and appellate levels at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where she maintained an extensive civil rights pro bono practice at the firm and on secondment with Brooklyn Legal Services.

Nigar graduated from Berkeley Law, where she served as student government president, as well as a Civil Rights Fellow at Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law and Society, a Writing and Oral Advocacy Teaching Assistant, and a member of the Admissions Committee. Nigar earned BAs in Human Biology and Political Science and honors in International Security Studies from Stanford, where she competed nationally as part of the university’s cheerleading and Bollywood dance teams.
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Areas of Practice (2)

  • Civil Litigation
  • Criminal Law

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, B.A., Political Science
Law School Attended:
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, J.D., 2013
Year of First Admission:
2014
Admission:
2014, New York; 2018, United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York; 2018, United States District Court for the Northern District of New York; 2018, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; 2021, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; 2022, California; United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; District of Columbia
ISLN:
922979386

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