Thaara Sumithra Shankar is an Associate at GHS Law LLP, where her practice focuses on business litigation, managed healthcare, and employment disputes. Prior to joining the firm, she was an intellectual property associate at Tucker Ellis LLP and an associate at Winget, Spadafora & Schwartzberg, LLP. 
 
Thaara earned her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, with a concentration in Media, Entertainment, Technology & Sports Law, where she served as an Articles Editor of the UCLA Law Review, a Submissions Editor for the UCLA Entertainment Law Review, a Clinician in the Documentary Film Legal Clinic, and Co-President of the Art Law Society. She received her M.A. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where was given the Saraswati Dalmia Scholarship. She received a Fulbright-Nehru Research Award and spent seven-months living in New Delhi, India, researching the contemporary art world. She received her B.A. in History of Art, with minors in Classics and Museums and Society from Johns Hopkins University, where she received several research awards, was Co-President of Thoroughfare, an arts and literary magazine, and worked at several major art institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and Fondazione Giuliani.