Aneelah Afzali

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Aneelah is an attorney at Stokes Lawrence, P.S., with a general litigation practice and an emphasis on complex commercial litigation.  She also serves on the WSBA Committee for Diversity and on the Board of Directors for LAW Fund: The Campaign for Equal Justice.  Washington Law and Politics has recognized her as a Rising Star in 2007 and 2008.

Before joining Stokes Lawrence, Aneelah was an attorney in the Consumer Litigation Practice Group at Heller Ehrman LLP.  While in law school, Aneelah worked at the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center (Housing and Family Law Units).  She also served as:  a legal intern for the International Rescue Committee, assisting in the development and implementation of the Durable Solutions Project (a pilot program to assist Afghan refugees); a research assistant for the UNHCR Imagine Coexistence Project, where she co-authored and presented a paper to scholars on the theme of coexistence at a Harvard conference; and a legal extern for the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Steering Committee on Self-Represented Litigants.

Aneelah was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and came to the United States at the age of five, after three years in Germany.  She obtained her law degree from Harvard Law School in May 2003.  Aneelah was a Chayes International Service Fellow at Harvard, as well as an Executive Editor of the Harvard Blackletter Law Journal and a Primary Editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.  She received her B.A., summa cum laude, in Psychology from the University of Oregon Robert D. Clark Honors College.

Aneelah enjoys traveling and has lived in or visited:  Afghanistan, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip), Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.