Meghan Koushik focuses her practice on complex investigation and litigation matters, with a particular focus on anti-discrimination issues. She regularly conducts sensitive internal investigations and provides strategic counseling for companies responding to allegations of discrimination and sexual misconduct. She also maintains an active pro bono practice, focusing on immigrants’ rights and reproductive justice.

Ms. Koushik rejoined the firm after clerking for the Honorable Analisa Torres of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She graduated from Stanford Law School with Highest Pro Bono Distinction for completing more than 300 pro bono hours as a law student. In law school, Ms. Koushik was a student attorney in Stanford’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and its International Human Rights Clinic; co-president of the Women of Stanford Law and the Women of Color Collective; and a student attorney for the International Refugee Assistance Program, through which she aided in the resettlement process of an Afghan SIV recipient. She received the Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award in 2019 for her contributions to the Stanford Law community.

Prior to law school, Ms. Koushik was a research associate at the Brennan Center for Justice, where she co-wrote a major report on Countering Violent Extremism programs. From 2013-2014, she was a Fulbright grantee in Turkey.

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Credentials

  • Education

    • JD, Stanford Law School, 2019

      Articles Editor, Stanford Law Review, Articles Editor, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

      Leon M. Cain Community Leadership Award

    • BA, International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies, Brown University, 2013

  • Admissions

    • New York

  • Clerkships

    • The Hon. Analisa Torres, US District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2021 - 2022

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