PRATHI CHOWDRI served as a federal trial attorney defending the NYPD against claims of false arrest, excessive force, wrongful conviction and malicious prosecution in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York from 2005 to 2010. Many of her cases as senior counsel involved complex civil litigation with extensive e-discovery and high-profile claims against the city, its police officers, prosecutors and corrections officers. She also worked as an associate at a private law firm in New York City where she continued federal trial litigation in both 42 USC § 1983 and medical malpractice. Prathi has also served as an adjunct professor in constitutional law at Florida Atlantic University. From 2015 to 2024 she worked as a member of Lexipol’s legal team, ensuring policy and other content conformed to state and federal standards. She is now chief legal advisor and director of strategy for Polis Solutions, focusing on law, policy and civil rights from a policing and AI perspective.
