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 completed parallel studies at University College of London in the same year, where her coursework included international business and human rights law. Those early academic choices set the tone for a career that crosses immigration, human rights and community-based legal work.
Qazi began her legal career in private practice. In 2004 she worked as an associate at Davis, Hands and Liss, a position that gave her hands-on experience in litigation and client counseling. Three years later she struck out on her own. In 2007 she founded Qazi Law Offices and continues to lead the firm as CEO and managing lawyer. The move from associate to firm founder reflected a shift toward building a practice aligned with the policy and humanitarian issues she had studied.
Teaching has been part of her professional mix. In 2011 she served as an adjunct 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 professional organizations runs broad and deep. She holds leadership roles in the American Bar Association as Vice Chair of Middle East Affairs and has taken on programmatic roles in national groups such as 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 family planning and emergency response, and she has been active on Illinois State Bar Association section councils related to human rights and immigration, including a seat on the ISBA Section Council on Immigration and International Law from 2008 to 2009.
Those roles tie back to the kinds of matters her office handles. Her career combines courtroom experience, classroom instruction and organizational leadership. She balances individual client representation with broader policy and community projects.
Her practice concentrates on immigration and human rights matters, and on legal issues arising from family planning and emergency response in immigrant communities.
