Reema R. Desai
Reema R. Desai is Of Counsel to Chaffin Luhana LLP. Her practice focuses on representing injured consumers in mass tort litigation, including the Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella birth control litigation.
Ms. Desai is a founding partner of ShahDesai, PC, where she is still a partner and practices in general civil litigation. She has successfully represented commercial businesses and real estate owners, as well as individuals, in state and municipal litigation. She has also served as a court-appointed mediator for the Middlesex County New Jersey Court.
As part of her practice at ShahDesai, PC, Ms. Desai has also worked in Mumbai, India as a litigation and e-discovery consultant for a company that has since been acquired by Thomson Reuters. On this project, she supervised over sixty attorneys and managed the daily operations of large complex e-discovery matters for various Fortune 500 companies, including matters related to securities and pharmaceutical litigation. She was also responsible for training attorneys on e-discovery platforms and worked closely with vendors to design project specific e-discovery programs.
Early in her career, Ms. Desai was an Associate in the New Jersey office of a large national law firm, where she gained litigation experience from defending large multinational corporations in mass tort, product liability, and construction litigation. Before that and directly after law school, she was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Amy Piro Chambers, who at the time was the presiding Judge of the Middlesex County New Jersey Civil Division.
Ms. Desai has been committed to empowering marginalized communities throughout her career. As an attorney, she has co-founded and managed a non-profit organization to advocate for the civil and immigrant rights of South Asians in New Jersey. She also served as a pro bono attorney for domestic violence survivors and as director of a transitional home for families of domestic violence. Before she became a lawyer, Ms. Desai was a volunteer with a human rights organization in Cape Town, South Africa, where she successfully fought against the government to prevent the forced relocation of a rural South African community.
Ms. Desai is admitted to the Bars of the States of New Jersey and New York and her admission in California is pending. She received her B.S. in Health Sciences from Boston University and her J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, where she was the Managing Editor for the Computer and Technology Law Journal. While in law school, Ms. Desai interned for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Department of Justice Executive Office For Immigration Review.
