Our Team
Strategy-driven advocacy. We know your opponent’s next move.
Fast justice starts with knowing your opponent’s next move. Our team has spent careers countering employer strategy, and that experience consistently drives our clients to strong settlements. Led by Founding & Managing Partner Jitesh Dudani, who has recovered tens of millions for employees, we bring a deep bench of attorneys, drafters, and operations leaders to every case, serving New York and New Jersey from the first confidential call to the final resolution.
Managing Partner
The attorney who built Dudani Law.
Founding & Managing Partner
Jitesh Dudani
Jitesh Dudani founded Dudani Law on a single conviction: every employee who has been harassed, discriminated against, or pushed out of a job deserves representation as fierce and skilled as the one their employer can buy. As Managing Partner, he leads the firm's litigation strategy and personally first-chairs its most consequential matters.
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Attorneys at Law
The advocates who carry your case.
William K. Oates is Head of Litigation at Dudani Law and the attorney employers do not want to see across the table. In nearly three decades of labor and employment practice, he has built cases the way trials are won: meticulously, from day one.
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William K. Oates
Head of Litigation & Senior Litigation Attorney
25+ yrs · Former NYC Special Asst. Corp. Counsel
Kayla M. Wheeler is a plaintiff-side employment attorney admitted in New York and New Jersey, named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in 2025. She came to this work to vindicate workers' rights, and it shows in every case she touches.
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Kayla M. Wheeler
Senior Associate Attorney
National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 (2025)
Julie Varghese is an Associate Attorney who has worked both sides of employment law and chose the employee's side. Her defense-side experience is now her clients' advantage: she knows how employers build their defenses and where those defenses crack.
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Julie Varghese
Associate Attorney
Yori Johnson is an Associate Attorney who brings a defense-side perspective to the representation of employees in high-stakes workplace disputes. He knows how the other side evaluates claims, and today he puts that experience to work for his clients.
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Yori Johnson
Associate Attorney
Drafting Team
The team behind every complaint, motion, and brief.
Pragya Upadhyay is a Legal Research & Drafting Specialist at Dudani Law and an international attorney whose work focuses on workplace disputes, including sexual harassment, labor law violations, racial discrimination, religious discrimination, and disability discrimination. She drafts complaints and pleadings and organizes evidentiary materials in support of the firm's matters.
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Pragya Upadhyay
Legal Research & Drafting Specialist
Dr. Bhavya Sharma is a legal academic, researcher, practitioner, and editor based in Delhi, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Law (Mediation) and brings extensive experience in legal research, drafting, dispute resolution, and legal education to the firm's employment matters.
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Dr. Bhavya Sharma
Legal Research & Drafting Specialist
Richa Parasher is a Legal Research & Drafting Specialist at Dudani Law and an international attorney. She supports the firm's drafting team by preparing workplace harassment complaints, claim letters, mediation statements, and pleadings. Her work focuses on presenting facts clearly and effectively.
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Richa Parasher
Legal Research & Drafting Specialist
Litigation Support
The team keeping every case moving.
Recep Cem Teber is the Senior Law Clerk at Dudani Law, based at One World Trade Center, supporting employment discrimination, harassment, and whistleblower matters. He holds an LL.M. from UC Berkeley and is a member of the Istanbul Bar Association, preparing for the New York bar.
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Recep Cem Teber
Senior Law Clerk
Sanjana Eleswarapu is a Litigation Law Clerk at Dudani Law, based at One World Trade Center, supporting attorneys on employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and whistleblower matters. She holds an LL.B. from the University of London and brings a dual US/UK legal perspective to her work.
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Sanjana Eleswarapu
Law Clerk
Evan Mendelson is a Senior Litigation Paralegal at Dudani Law, based at One World Trade Center, supporting attorneys through every stage of litigation. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, he is a consistent point of communication for the firm's multilingual clients, so language is never a barrier to effective representation.
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Evan Mendelson
Senior Litigation Paralegal
Operations Leadership
The team that keeps the firm running.
Bianca Marina is the Director of Legal Operations at Dudani Law. She oversees client intake and the systems, workflows, and administrative infrastructure that support the firm's litigation practice, manages the firm's law clerks and paralegals, and leads its legal technology initiatives. Fluent in Spanish.
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Bianca Marina
Director of Legal Operations
Daniel Wallace is the Director of Finance & Business Affairs at Dudani Law. He oversees the firm's financial administration, insurance matters, procurement, organizational initiatives, and office infrastructure, and works with Jitesh Dudani, the Managing Partner, and Bianca on firm initiatives and strategic growth. With a J.D. and prior litigation experience, he is also assigned active cases under the firm's attorneys.
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Daniel Wallace
Director of Finance & Business Affairs
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