Professor Priya N. Lakhi has over a dozen years of experience as a criminal defense attorney.  Most recently, Professor Lakhi was a Senior Staff Attorney with the Georgia Capital Defender, where she worked with Law students from Emory and Georgia State Law schools in representing clients facing capital charges.  She previously held staff attorney positions with the Legal Aid Society of New York and the Dekalb County and Fulton County Public Defender offices in Georgia.  Professor Lakhi also spent four months in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2009, helping establish the first Legal Aid and Public Defender offices in post-conflict Nepal.