Aditi
Shah

Aditi has always been drawn to a good mystery. A lover of puzzles and crime dramas who can recite My Cousin Vinny line for line, she is happiest putting the pieces together, looking past the easy version of events to find the truth underneath. That instinct turned personal early on, when she represented her own father – an immigrant from India who kept his head down and did his job – in an employment discrimination matter, and won. It taught her a lesson that still drives her: the people whose voices matter most are often the quietest in the room. As an investigator, Aditi makes sure every one of them is heard.

Experience

Aditi brings more than seventeen years of experience as a federal employment attorney. Over the course of her career, she has advised agencies and senior leaders, conducted and overseen workplace investigations, assessed credibility, weighed conflicting evidence, and translated complex records into clear, defensible findings, often in high-visibility, reputation-sensitive matters involving senior officials.

Her federal service spans the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Across these agencies, Aditi advised on and litigated a broad range of workplace matters – discrimination and harassment under Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Equal Pay Act; whistleblower reprisal; reasonable accommodations; performance and misconduct; and discipline and removals. She has appeared before the EEOC, the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the Office of Special Counsel, the Foreign Service Grievance Board, and federal courts. Earlier in her career, she contributed to a landmark federal matter that helped establish protections for transgender employees, working alongside the U.S. Department of Justice.

Aditi has also trained managers and supervisors on EEO, misconduct, and whistleblower law, and has long been a dedicated mentor to the interns and attorneys entering the profession. She began her legal career as an intern to the Honorable Patricia A. Seitz of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and as a U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honors Program attorney, and was later selected as a Fellow in the White House Leadership Development Program. In law school, she served as J.D. Editor-in-Chief of the Intercultural Human Rights Law Review, and she draws on her conversational Hindi and cultural fluency in her work.

Outside the Office

Aditi spends most of her free time refereeing between her two boys. When she’s not, her “helium hand” tends to take over – the moment she spots a volunteer opportunity, it shoots up before she’s quite decided to raise it. That instinct has led her to volunteer all over her community, from her children’s schools and local sports leagues to organizing Montgomery County’s largest Diwali celebration and launching a 5K Sari Run.

“Don’t ever go with the flow, be the flow.” — Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter