Esha Shekhar

About Esha Shekhar

Esha is a strategic and results driven lawyer running ES Law Offices. Her office regularly assists clients in drafting, vetting and negotiating general and technology contracts, data protection and privacy law implementation, employment, labour law and POSH compliance (including internal training and company policies). She counsels and advises several small and medium sized tech companies (as their outsourced legal counsel) on their legal affairs and processes, both in India and outside jurisdictions. Her clientele includes companies in various sectors ranging from SaaS companies in F&B, online advertising, education-tech, cloud service providers to social impact sector. Esha holds expertise in guiding organizations on implementing gender based workplace laws in India. She consults various organizations to implement POSH Act, 2013 at their workplaces and regularly conducts specialized trainings for the ICCs and employees. She also serves as an External Member for several reputed companies in the F&B, hospitality, technology sector in India. She works closely with Dept of Women and Child Development, Chhattisgarh to conduct capacity building trainings for members of Departmental ICCs and LCCs set across the state. She also regularly trains officers positioned in state established Crisis Intervention Centres (known as One Stop Centres) on how to advise women on legal issues faced in a local context. Esha is the co-author of “Understanding Workplace Laws for Women in India” (2021) published by Bloomsbury Publishing India.In 12 years of PQE, she has worn many hats in her professional journey: as a legal journalist, litigator, entrepreneur and corporate counsel. Post graduating from NUJS Kolkata in 2012, she started as a legal journalist with Bloomberg TV India (now Bloomberg Quint) and continued to work in litigation teams of Dua Associates and HSA Advocates. She then co-founded Cliklawyer.com, an online legal platform to help startups get access to quality legal advise in a timely and process oriented manner. Esha also co-founded Ungender to make workplaces inclusive, safe & legally compliant with anti-sexual harassment at workplace laws. She is also a Managing Trustee at Initiatives for Inclusion Foundation (IIF), a non-profit organization through which she filed a public interest litigation at the Supreme Court of India to ensure that state governments comply with the anti-sexual harassment at workplace law of India

Experience

1. Managing Trustee

   Initiatives For Inclusion Foundation

   May 2017 — Present · New Delhi, IN

   Initiatives for Inclusion Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization (“NGO”) registered as a Public Charitable Trust in New Delhi. IIF is working with private, government sector organizations, government bodies, police departments for creating awareness as well as ensuring effective implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act 2013 [POSH Act, 2013]. IIF partnerned with the Chhattisgarh Government (Women and Child Development Department) to conduct capacity building sessions for Local Complaints Committee Members and District Officers appointed across 27 districts in the State under POSH Act, 2013. As part of its work on gender based laws, the Foundation has developed and implemented capacity building programs and community mobilization at ground leveI. The Foundation conducted capacity building sessions for women running the Sakhi Centres (One Stop Centres) across 27 districts in the state of Chhattisgarh to simplify gender based laws and procedures for Sakhi Centre members, training them on conducting effective counselling sessions and building processes within the Centre to deal effectively with women in distress. IIF through its capacity building interventions is also working with various CAW (Crime Against Women) Cells in New Delhi to train police officers on laws preventing sexual harassment at workplace and conducts gender sensitization sessions for police offices to help them deal effectively with women in distress. A PIL has also been filed in Supreme Court [Initiatives for Inclusion Foundation vs Union of India and Ors- WP(C) 1224/2017] to ensure that state governments comply with POSH Act, 2013. Contact me at e••••••••@gmail.com or call at 98••••••88 for more details on the Foundation\'s work.

Education

• National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata

  B.A.LLB., Law

  2007 — 2012

Skills

• Intellectual Property
• Civil Litigation
• Due Diligence
• Foreign Investment
• Dispute Resolution
• Organizational Development
• Joint Ventures
• Competition Law
• Management
• Organizational Leadership
• Consumer Law
• Legal Research
• International Law
• Institutional Business Development
• Company Law
• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Storytelling
• Document Drafting
• Commercial Litigation
• Legal Advice
• Courts
• Corporate Law
• Legal Assistance
• Criminal Law
• Dispute