About Behzad
Behzad Gohari built a layered academic foundation before entering private practice. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1990. He completed his J.D. at Widener University Delaware School of Law in 1994 and later returned to Georgetown for an M.B.A., awarded in 1996. In 2013 he added an LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in Securities & Financial Regulation. Those steps shaped both his classroom interests and his work at the bar.
Gohari’s professional life moves between practice and teaching. He serves as Principal of Gohari Legal Group, where he leads the firm’s day-to-day operations and client work. He also teaches as an adjunct professor at the Washington College of Law at American University and at the University of Maryland’s Honors College. In the classroom he brings legal concepts to students from different vantage points: practical issues that arise in firm work and the regulatory themes he studied in graduate school.
His graduate study in securities and financial regulation informs much of his practice. He is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in Maryland. Gohari maintains memberships in the Bar Association of Montgomery County, Maryland and in the Maryland State Bar Association. Those affiliations keep him engaged with local legal developments and bar programs, and they connect him to peers who practice across a range of civil and regulatory matters.
At Gohari Legal Group he oversees client intake and case planning while continuing to handle matters himself. The firm’s work reflects the mix of regulatory, transactional and advisory tasks that follow from his academic training and professional background. Outside the office, he balances teaching responsibilities with practice obligations, moving between lecture halls and client meetings over the course of an academic year. He currently practices law at Gohari Legal Group, working on matters in the District of Columbia and Maryland.
