Aneel L. Chablani joined Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in July 2017. As Chief Counsel, Aneel works with Project Directors to advance the mission and strategic direction of Chicago Lawyers' Committee through systemic advocacy and impact litigation. Prior to joining Chicago Lawyers' Committee, Aneel served as Director of Advocacy at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE) in Toledo, Ohio. At ABLE, an unrestricted poverty law firm serving Northwest Ohio, Aneel worked with an advocacy management team on development of impact litigation and broad based advocacy in practice groups covering Housing and Community Economic Development, Education, Healthcare and Public Benefits and Migrant Farmworker Rights. This included class action litigation, policy and legislative advocacy and community lawyering. Prior to his work at ABLE, Aneel worked with the Capital Appeals Project in New Orleans representing inmates on Louisiana’s death row on direct appeals to the Louisiana Supreme Court and petitions for writ of certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. Aneel began his legal career with the LAF in Chicago working in the areas of housing and consumer rights. Aneel also currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Shriver Center’s Racial Justice Training Institute and has served as faculty and team coach for the institute programs. He is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law and the University of Notre Dame.

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You can contact Aneel Chablani at achablani@clccrul.org.