Shivangi Bhatia

Shivangi Bhatia is a litigation associate at Cowdery, Murphy & Healy, LLC, where she handles a range of complex appellate and trial-level matters in both state and federal court. Shivangi also has experience representing clients in federal investigations and prosecutions, as well as conducting independent internal investigations for governmental and private entities.

Appointed by the Chief Justice, Shivangi sits on Connecticut’s Access to Justice Commission. A Presidential Fellow to the Connecticut Bar Association, Shivangi also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federal Practice Section.

Prior to joining the firm, Shivangi clerked for Judge Maria Araújo Kahn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 2023 to 2024, and for Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson and then-Justice Kahn of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 2022 to 2023.

Shivangi began her career as a litigation associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP in New York after graduating cum laude from Fordham University School of Law in 2021. While in law school, Shivangi was an Associate Editor of both the Fordham Law Review and the Moot Court Board. Her note, “To ‘Otherwise Make Unavailable’: Tenant Screening Companies’ Liability Under the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Theory,” was published in Volume 88 of the Fordham Law Review. It was later cited by the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in a joint amicus brief before the Second Circuit in 2023. Shivangi received her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis.