Tara Kolar Ramchandani, Esq., is a Partner at Relman Colfax, a civil rights firm in DC. Her litigation focuses on ensuring equal opportunity in the provision of housing, public accommodations, and other services. For example, in Saint-Jean, et al. v. Emigrant Mortgage Co., et al., Ms. Ramchandani represented African American and Latino plaintiffs against a New York bank that targeted them for predatory, equity-stripping loans based on their race. In 2016, a jury found Emigrant liable for discrimination under federal and state law. In Fair Housing Rights Center in Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Morgan Properties Management Company, she secured the first federal court ruling in the nation to hold that a landlord can violate civil rights laws by refusing to consider the reasonable accommodation requests of disabled tenants seeking to change their rent due dates to align with the receipt of their monthly disability benefits.

Ms. Ramchandani served as a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow at Harvard Law School in 2016 and has been selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in civil rights from 2014 to 2020. She has been an adjunct professor at Michigan Law School and regularly presents civil rights issues across the country.

Ms. Ramchandani received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Hon. Algenon L. Marbley on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.