Support and Advocacy for Transparency and Human Rights, SAATH started with the idea of focusing on certain areas of law that intersect around corporate accountability, human rights concerns, civil liberties, criminal law and public interest needs. SAATH focuses on dispute resolution through litigation, negotiation, mediation, and working with authorities to resolve whistleblower claims.
SAATH works in three primary areas of law:
SAATH is the law practice of Surabhi Dhar. Surabhi received her law degrees from the WB National University of Juridical Sciences, India, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) and Harvard Law School, LL.M. She has previously worked at a renowned national U.S. law firm, Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnights’s New York Office, Chambers of Adit Subramaniam Pujari in Delhi and at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas’ Delhi Office. Surabhi is dual-qualified to practice in India and the U.S. In India she is admitted to practice with the Bar Council of Delhi and in the U.S., she is admitted to practice with the New York Bar.
Surabhi has worked across courts in Delhi at the trial and appellate level primarily as a criminal lawyer before her masters. Her work involved both criminal defence and representation of complainants and victims in criminal cases and workplace harassment complaints. Surabhi’s criminal law work included body offences, speech and association offences and white-collar offences. Surabhi has also worked in constitutional law and civil rights cases in India, in addition to working on family law disputes and defamation law cases.
SAATH is particularly focused on bringing together the strategies of court intervention and negotiation from both countries – specifically combining learnings from volume-based legal work in the litigation-heavy Indian practice with lessons from long-term planning of legal claims from the pre-suit resolution heavy American practice.
SAATH practices conscionable pro bono guidelines and confidentiality policies to ensure safe and equitable access to its legal services. SAATH also rejects the siloed practice of law and frequently collaborates with other like-minded lawyers when a case needs it and a client would benefit from it.
Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight is distinguished as the number one ranked employment rights firm in the U.S. by leading professional journals as well as a number one ranked human rights firm. Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight excels at holding major companies, firms, and institutions accountable when they cause harm. Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight represents whistleblowers in exposing fraud against the government and expose corporate non-compliance in cutting-edge issues like consumer fraud, cybersecurity, foreign corrupt practices, highway safety, and digital ad fraud by supporting investigations conducted by the other U.S. state agencies. Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight also represents victims of discrimination, harassment, and sexual assault, including employees at Fortune 500 companies, attorneys at law firms, and university faculty and students. SAATH collaborates with Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight through Surabhi’s engagement with them as an Of Counsel.
Rupali Francesca Samuel is a constitutional and criminal law practitioner and scholar based in New Delhi. She is a graduate of Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad and attended Harvard Law School (LL.M.) as a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow 2019-2020 where she received two Dean’s Scholar medals for outstanding scholarship. She has clerked with Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dr. S Muralidhar at the Delhi High Court and thereafter practiced before the Supreme Court, Delhi High Court and trial courts in Delhi. She was also awarded the prestigious Harvard Law School Henigson Human Rights Fellowship 2020 – 2021 to work on strategic litigation and training of lawyers at ‘Parichay’, a citizenship law legal aid clinic in Assam. She presently practices in the Supreme Court of India and in the Delhi High Court and District Courts and focuses on criminal law (both body offences and white-collar crime), matrimonial law and constitutional law. Rupali and Surabhi collaborate on cases related to criminal law and gender justice.
Archit Krishna is a Delhi-based independent litigator who graduated from the WB National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India, B.A. LL.B. (Hons.). Archit’s practice consists of representing survivors of gender-based violence, criminal defense in speech, association and body offence cases and environmental law, constitutional law along with labour and service law matters across forums in Delhi and other States. Before setting up his independent practice, Archit worked as a legal consultant at Maati, Legal and Environmental Resource Centre at Kanker, Chhattisgarh and then in Delhi, first with the Chambers of Nitya Ramakrishnan and then, at the Chambers of Jawahar Raja. Archit and Surabhi collaborate on cases relating to criminal defense and constitutional rights.
Kanak Bose is a Delhi-based independent litigator who practices primarily before the Supreme Court of India, the Delhi High Court and Tribunals in Delhi, with almost ten years of experience and acquired expertise in commercial and civil litigation. Kanak graduated from National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) degree. After gaining substantial experience in the field of commercial suits and intellectual property rights at Anand and Anand, including nuanced disputes around Non-Disclosure Agreements, confidential information, and trade secrets, Kanak decided to expand from the IPR niche to general commercial and civil law, in the Chambers of Mr. Nikhil Singhvi and later, with the Chambers of renowned Senior Counsel, Mr. Joy Basu. Kanak’s practice include disputes related to import/export of firearms, insurance law, medical negligence, contractual and consumer disputes, trademark & copyright suits, arbitration proceedings and disputes relating to succession. Kanak and Surabhi collaborate on cases related to commercial litigation, corporate whistleblowing and accountability.
Payoshi Roy is a Bombay-based independent criminal defence lawyer who practices primarily before the Supreme Court of India and the Bombay High Court. Payoshi received her primary degree of law (B.A. LL.B. (Hons.)) from National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and her master’s (L.LM.) from Columbia University where she was a Fulbright-Nehru Fellow 2022-23. Her practice area covers criminal cases usually in body, speech and association as well as prosecutions under anti-terror laws with a specialized focus on representing death row convicts at an appellate stage. She also works on cases of custodial death and State-inflicted violence and has represented victims of custodial torture in different states in India and before the Supreme Court in her independent practice as well as in her work with the Chambers of Yug Mohit Chaudhary. Payoshi is a visiting professor at National Law School of India University and teaches courses on defending capital punishment cases across other premier national universities as well. Payoshi and Surabhi collaborate on criminal defence and public interest cases.
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