BHARATI O. SHARMA

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Education:

• 1995 - Bachelor of Arts, University of Pittsburgh
• 1998 – Master of Public Administration, The George Washington University
• 2001 - Juris Doctorate, American University Washington College of Law

Admissions:

• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (2001)
• Supreme Court of New Jersey (2001)
• United States District Court, District of New Jersey (2001)
• United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (2008)
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (2010)

Memberships:

• American Association for Justice
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia
• North American South Asian Bar Association

Awards, Accomplishments, & Recognitions:

• Invited speaker at the American Association for Justice Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Seminar on Hormone Therapy litigation
• Founder and former President of the South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia
• Served on the Executive Committees of the North American Bar Association and Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers' Division
• Member of American University's International Law Review
• Member of Pi Alpha Alpha, National Honor Society for Public Administration

Bharati Sharma is an associate at Pogust Braslow & Millrood. Bharati has broad complex civil litigation experience, representing clients in mass tort, securities and consumer class action litigation in federal and state courts around the country. Notably, Bharati has second chaired a trial involving hormone replacement therapy, resulting in a verdict of $3 million; and assisted in achieving settlements in securities class actions, including In re Marvell Tech. Group Ltd. (N.D. Cal.) ($72 million) and In re Michael Baker Corp. (W.D. Pa.) ($4.5 million).

Earlier in her career, Bharati clerked for the Honorable Stephen Skillman, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.