POOJA SHETHJI is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Outten & Golden LLP. As a member of the firm’s Class & Collective Action Practice Group, she represents individuals in a wide range of discrimination and wage and hour matters. Her practice includes actions challenging discrimination in digital advertising and litigation on behalf of applicants denied employment due to criminal history background check policies. Pooja has also prosecuted wage theft claims involving workers across industries such as food service, retail, sales, finance, and construction, and she represents employees seeking to enforce veterans’ and reservists’ rights.
Before joining Outten & Golden LLP, Pooja served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and to the Honorable Theodore D. Chuang of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. Pooja received her B.A. from Yale College and her J.D., cum laude, from New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and an Articles Editor for the NYU Law Review.
Pooja is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, the National Employment Lawyers Association, and the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. She has presented at national conferences on topics including discovery strategy and wage and hour issues.
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