About Farrah
Farrah Qazi studied law on two continents and entered practice in Illinois soon after. She earned a J.D. from DePaul College of Law in 2001 and finished parallel studies at University College of London within the same year, the place her coursework covered worldwide business and human rights regulation. Those early academic choices set the tone for a profession that crosses immigration, human rights and community-based legal work.
Qazi started her professional legal career in personal practice. In 2004 she labored as an affiliate at Davis, Hands and Liss, a role that gave her hands-on knowledge in legal proceedings and client counseling. Three years later she struck out on her own. In 2007 she founded Qazi Law Offices and continues to steer the company as CEO and managing lawyer. The pass from associate to company founder mirrored a shift toward building a tradition aligned with the coverage and humanitarian problems she had studied.
Teaching has been a part of her expert blend. In 2011 she served as a part-time law professor at Waubonsee Community College, bringing practical legal topics into the classroom for students pursuing paralegal and related studies. That classroom time complements her practice and her volunteer work in various bar associations where education and outreach are frequent priorities.
Qazi’s involvement in expert organizations runs broad and deep. She holds management roles in the American Bar Association as Vice Chair of Middle East Affairs and has taken on programmatic roles in national groups similar to Lawyers for Good Government, where she serves as National Coordinator of the Family Planning Immigration Project. She is a member of the Kane County Bar Association LRS and the DuPage County Bar Association. Her work with the Muslim Bar Association includes serving as a liaison for household making plans and emergency reaction, and she has been active on Illinois State Bar Association area councils related to human rights and immigration, which includes a seat on the ISBA Section Council on Immigration and International Law from 2008 to 2009.
Those roles tie again to the types of things her office handles. Her profession combines courtroom experience, study room instruction and organizational management. She balances individual client representation with broader policy and network projects.
Her practice concentrates on immigration and human rights matters, and on legal issues arising from household making plans and emergency response in immigrant communities.
